The World Health Organization (WHO) lists four lung diseases amongst the ten most frequent causes of death worldwide. Every fifth death is the result of a lung disease or its secondary diseases. It is predicted that the number of cases will continue to rise sharply until 2030. Most serious lung diseases are still incurable, can only be treated symptomatically and are associated with a high economic outlay.
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has therefore supported the foundation of a German Center for Lung Research, modelled on the American National Institutes of Health, so that new options in diagnosis, therapy and prevention of diseases can be rapidly developed.
A total of 70 million € has been made available to set up the German Center for Lung Research from 2011 – 2015, 90 % of which is contributed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and 10 % by the federal states involved.
The five partner sites of DZL are:
BREATH and REBIRTH
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