Research in the Department of Internal Medicine

Head of Department: Prof. Dr. Barbara Kohn

• Research areas
• Infectious diseases of dogs and cats (vector-borne diseases, Angiostrongylus infection of dogs)
• Antibiotic stewardship
• SIRS and sepsis - blood culture management
• Clinical immunology: immune-mediated diseases (immune-mediated hemolytic anemia, immune-mediated thrombocytopenia, immune-mediated polyarthritis)
• Transfusion medicine in dogs and cats
• Intoxications
• Dermatological issues

Cooperations

Department of Veterinary Medicine at Freie Universität Berlin

• Institute of Veterinary Biochemistry (WE03)
• Institute of Animal Nutrition (WE04)
• Institute of Microbiology and Animal Diseases (WE07)
• Institute of Animal Pathology (WE12)
• Institute of Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine (WE13)
• Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Biometry (WE16)
• Institute for Animal and Environmental Hygiene (WE10)

National research cooperations

• Friedrich-Löffler-Institute, Riems Island
• Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin
• Robert Koch Institute, Berlin
• Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry, Free University of Berlin
• Parasitology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
• Physiology and Pathophysiology of Nutrition, University of Potsdam

• University Medical Center Hamburg-EppendorfSonstiges

International research cooperations

• Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Texas AM University

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Further cooperations

• Industry cooperations
• Cooperation with private laboratories

Other topics

Dissertation: Various dissertation topics are offered. If you are interested, please contact: Barbara.Kohn@fu-berlin.de

Publications