page_title: Paul Ehrlich Institute
section_title: Activities
hierarchical_section_title: Paul Ehrlich Institute / Activities
caption_attribution_description: Paul-Ehrlich-Institut in Langen, Germany, Oktober 2006
context_page_description: The Paul Ehrlich Institute is a German research institution and medical regulatory body, and is the German federal institute for vaccines and biomedicines. It is a federal agency and subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Health. It is a WHO Collaborating Centre for quality assurance of blood products and in vitro diagnostic devices. The institute is located in Langen, Hesse, near Frankfurt, and was located in Frankfurt for most of the 20th century. It is named for its founding director, the immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate Paul Ehrlich.
context_section_description: The regulatory tasks of the Paul Ehrlich Institute 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.
caption: The Paul Ehrlich Institute
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