Organisation

The institute employs about 220 staff members and consists of the management, the secretariat and the service division. Furthermore we have these five sections:

• Virology – focusing on serious virus infections, including virus infections transmitted from animals to humans (zoonotic infections).
  

• Immunology and Vaccinology – including deve-lopment and optimization of new vaccines and other biological products.
  

• Epidemiology – including disease modeling and climate-related changes in disease spread.
  

• Bacteriology, Pathology and Parasitology - focusing on fish bacteriology, non-food-borne bacterial zoo-noses and activities with a view to reducing the use of antibiotics. We also work on methods for characterizing multi-bacterial societies. 
  

• Public sector service and commercial diagnostics.

Besides the main division in Copenhagen the institute has divisons in Aarhus and on the island Lindholm.