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Gastrointestinal Infections

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Infections of the Immunocompromised Host

Healthcare-Associated and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacterial Infections

Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases

Emerging Infections

Novel Antibiotics

Tuberculosis

Dec 4 2023

Outstanding hepatitis research: DZIF Professor receives honorary doctorate

Dec 1 2023

German University Medicine Award goes to DZIF scientists at the UKE

A team of researchers from Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Erlangen and Cologne has been awarded the German University Medicine Prize for curing the so-called "Düsseldorf patient", who suffered from leukaemia

Nov 21 2023

Call for action by the German Network against Antimicrobial Resistance (DNAMR)

"We are heading towards a crisis with our eyes wide open. Soon we will lack the antibiotics we need to perform vital operations," says Dr Timo Jäger, Managing Director of the German Center for

Nov 20 2023

World AMR Awareness Week from 18 to 24 November: Preventing antimicrobial resistance together

From 18 to 24 November, the “World AMR Awareness Week” (WAAW), a global campaign proclaimed by WHO, aims to draw attention to the near-pandemic rise in infections caused by resistant microbial

Shades of grey portrait of Prof Gerd Sutter

Nov 16 2023

The DZIF mourns the loss of Professor Gerd Sutter

Professor Gerd Sutter has died at the age of 61. His pioneering work on the development of MVA vaccines against measles, -CoV and West Nile virus, among others, had a major impact on modern

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Every year on 01 December is the annual:

World AIDS Day

Scientists at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) have been working for many years to gain a better understanding of HIV and AIDS. Their aim is to help those affected and, one day, to defeat the virus once and for all.

DZIF research area HIV

The graphic on the right shows a group of people from different cultures. On the left is this year's motto for the World AIDS Day: "Let communities lead".

Cut-out from the cover of the 2022 annual report

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DZIF Annual Report 2022

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Das zentrale Bioprobenregister im DZIF

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DZIF Annual Report 2021

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Hamburg - Lübeck - Borstel - Riems

Clinical Tuberculosis Centre

The Clinical Tuberculosis Centre provides the expertise and infrastructure for the optimisation, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) as well as for translating research results into clinical practice. The main objectives of the Clinical Tuberculosis Centre include coordinating clinical research activities involving the DZIF TB cohort. This cohort includes [...]

Hannover - Braunschweig | Heidelberg | München | Tübingen

Transplant Cohort

Medical data and biological samples obtained from transplant patients are collected and managed across Germany with the help of the DZIF Transplant Cohort. The data and samples form the basis of scientific studies which investigate the connections between numerous factors influencing an organ’s susceptibility to infection and organ function. In [...]

Tübingen

New strategies for specific eradication of Staphylococcus aureus

In this project, the scientists develop genetically engineered phage lysins and specific bacteriocins for the elimination of hospital germs such as Staphylococcus aureus, they clarify mechanisms of potential resistance mechanisms, and they analyse whether broad-spectrum or specifically acting agents have a more effective and lasting effect on colonization by [...]

Hannover - Braunschweig

Preclinical development of Amidochelocardins

The challenge of antibiotic drug development today is the discovery and optimisation of novel bioactive compounds that do not show cross-resistances with clinically applied antibiotics, ideally due to a novel mode of action (MoA) which adresses unexploited microbial targets. In the case of chelocardin, this antibiotic substance was identified several [...]