Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Germany)
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The Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI) is an institution of the Federal Republic of Germany
and a medical regulatory body. The Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines reports to the Federal Ministry of Health (in German, Bundesministerium für Gesundheit).
The regulatory tasks of the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut include the marketing authorisation of particular groups of medicinal products and the approval of clinical trials. The medicinal products in the responsibility of the PEI are: vaccines for humans and animals, medicinal products containing antibodies, allergens for therapy and diagnostics, blood and blood products and more recently, tissue and medicinal products for gene therapy, somatic cell therapy and xenogenic cell therapy.
The Institut is located in Langen, Hesse
and named after the German scientist and its first director Paul Ehrlich
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Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and a medical regulatory body. The Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines reports to the Federal Ministry of Health (in German, Bundesministerium für Gesundheit).
The regulatory tasks of the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut include the marketing authorisation of particular groups of medicinal products and the approval of clinical trials. The medicinal products in the responsibility of the PEI are: vaccines for humans and animals, medicinal products containing antibodies, allergens for therapy and diagnostics, blood and blood products and more recently, tissue and medicinal products for gene therapy, somatic cell therapy and xenogenic cell therapy.
The Institut is located in Langen, Hesse
Langen, Hesse
Langen is a town of roughly 36,000 in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, between Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main...
and named after the German scientist and its first director Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich was a German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy, and Nobel laureate. He is noted for curing syphilis and for his research in autoimmunity, calling it "horror autotoxicus"...
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