Moodinflame

Moodinflame is a CP collaborative project (FP7-HEALTH-2007-B) supported by the European Community. The project is a network of 18 groups from 10 countries (Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, UK, Italy, France, Sweden, Ireland, Austria) and is coordinated by Prof. Hemmo Drexhage (Erasmus Med. Center Rotterdam). The kick-off meeting was in Rotterdam in November 2008. The project aims to understand the role of inflammation in depression and the role of activated monocytes.

Moodinflame at the Innsbruck Medical University:

Coordinator: Prof. Barbara Sperner-Unterweger , head of the Psychoimmunology group at the Univ. Clinic of Biological Psychiatry.

Aims of Prof. Humpels workpackage: Culture serotonergic neurons of the dorsal raphe in slices and study neurodegeneration of neurons after inflammation and explore the role of IDO.