Human and Animal Cell Lines
Department
Head of Department
The Department of Human and Animal Cell LInes is responsible for the public collection of currently around 1000 cell lines. These include cell lines from humans, mice, insects and fish. The majority of the cell lines were established from human tumor samples and are therefore immortal cancer cell lines. With around 300 cell lines, the focus of the collection is on leukemias and lymphomas, cancers of the hematopoietic system. The scientists in the department work together on the comprehensive characterization and validation of the cell lines in the collection in order to best serve the needs of the scientific community. In addition, we concentrate on a number of different research topics in Leukemia & Lymphoma, Stem Cell Models, Infection & Immunity and Service & Standards. In this way, the department contributes to the establishment and distribution of validated cell lines as important models in cancer research and for human genetic diseases.
