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the German Center for Infection Research

Community-Acquired Infections at Mucosal Interfaces

Hepatitis

HIV

Infections of the Immunocompromised Host

Healthcare-Associated Infections

Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases

Emerging Infections

Novel Antibiotics

Tuberculosis

Portrait fotos of Philipp Schommers and Alexander Simonis

Dec 3 2024

Walter Siegenthaler Medals in Silver 2024 awarded to two DZIF junior scientists

Clarivate Image for Highly Cited Researchers 2024

Nov 22 2024

Eleven DZIF scientists among the “Highly Cited Researchers 2024”

Eleven scientists from the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) are among the “Highly Cited Researchers 2024”. The ranking, published on 19 November by the company Clarivate Analytics, lists

Tanja Schneider presenting the PHOENIX award

Nov 21 2024

Prof. Tanja Schneider receives PHOENIX Pharmacy Science Award

Prof. Tanja Schneider, Head of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Microbiology at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and Deputy Coordinator of the “New Antibiotics” research area at the German Center for

Nov 20 2024

An innovative class of antibiotics to combat drug-resistant bacteria

Antibacterial drugs are important for treating infections. However, increasing bacterial resistance to current drugs— making them ineffective or only partially effective— means that new drugs are

Michael Ramharter and his team at the award ceremony

Nov 15 2024

DZIF tropical medicine specialist receives Memento Research Award 2024

DZIF scientist Michael Ramharter from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf has received the Memento Research Prize 2024

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DZIF promotes podcast:

Infektiopod

Listen in: In each episode, a team of three consisting of initiator Dr Till Koch, Dr Annette Hennigs and Dr Elena Terhalle discuss specific diseases and current research findings. and the latest research findings. The current 88th episode features highlights from ID Week, an infectious disease conference in the USA.

More information about the podcast

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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 [...]