Research

Research profile of AIVI is on molecular medicine. Molecular medicine studies the causes and mechanisms of diseases at the molecular level and applies the gained knowledge in prevention, diagnostics and treatment of diseases.

Diseases studied at AIVI are restricted to diseases of high importance for the health care such as cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer's disease, stroke, epilepsy) and metabolism-related diseases (diabetes, pancreatitis). The strong research subareas include:

• molecular and cellular mechanisms of the diseases
• disease modelling
• prevention and therapy of the diseases: gene and cell-based therapy, pharmaceutical intervention
• in vitro and in vivo imaging