Joint research projects on improved vaccines against rabies : Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut and IDT Biologika sign collaboration agreement : FLI Press Release 05/2014

Isle of Riems/Dessau, 08 April 2014. The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health (FLI), and IDT Biologika have signed a collaboration agreement for joint research on rabies vaccines. With this agreement, the two partners continue their meanwhile traditional research relationship, which began almost forty years ago with the development of oral vaccines against fox rabies. The aim for the next two years is to improve available rabies vaccines and to develop new ones. „We are pleased that this collaboration agreement enables us to continue our research cooperation intensively and to benefit from the expertise available on both sides “, says Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Thomas C. Mettenleiter, President of the FLI. „The cooperation offers promising perspectives for both partners. For us, the continued collaboration in the field of rabies research is a possibility to find effective solutions for the worldwide control of this infectious disease“, emphasizes IDT managing director Dr. Gert Barysch.