BRICS is a joint research centre of the TU Braunschweig, the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, the Leibniz Institute DSMZ, the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH and the Physikalisch Technischen Bundesanstalt, National Metrology Institute.
The aim of BRICS is the investigation of infections, natural product formation and the development of bioengineering processes by Systems Biology methods.