Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy

Owing to its central role in indirect patient care, the Institute for Transfursion Medicine and Gene Therapy acts as an important link between the Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI), the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg (CCCF), the Freiburg Center for Rare Diseases  (FZSE) and the clinical departments with interests in conventional and innovative cell therapies.

The ITG is well connected with basic researchers within the CCI and has collaborations with the Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS) and with the Faculty of Biology of the University of Freiburg.

Employees of the Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy are members of the following professional associations and working groups:

• American Association of Blood Banks (AABB)
• American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT)
• Working Group of the Doctors of State and Communal Blood Transfusion Services (STKB)
• American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI)
• German Society for Research on DNA Repair (DGDR)
• German Society of Gene Therapy (DG-GT)
• German Society of Immunogenetics (DGI)
• German Society of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology (DGTI)
• German Society of Virology (GfV)
• European Federation for Immunogenetics (EFI)
• European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT)
• International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT)
• International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE)
• QP Association