On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the DGfI last year, the DGfI has published a commemorative publication which examines both the scientific triumphs in immunology in Germany and the development of our society from the past to the present.
The DGfI was formed through unification the immunological societies in the former FRG and GDR after 1945. The books examines both former separate societies and the development of the DGfI after the reunification.
The scientific triumphs in German immunology decribed in the book cover the period from the discovery and first clinical application of antibodies by Emil von Behring, Shibasaburo Kitasato and Paul Ehrlich to the incredible decline of immunology with the exodus of outstanding clinical immunologists after 1930 up to the development of hybridoma technology by Georges Koehler and César Milstein in 1975.