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World NTD Day 2023

Worldwide, nearly two billion people are at risk of becoming incapacitated, blind, disfigured, disabled or dying earlier due to neglected…

Anniversary of the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR)

Kumasi/Hamburg - The Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) in Ghana is celebrating its 25th anniversary with…

Why behavioural research plays an important role in climate protection

Erfurt / Hamburg, Germany, 17 November 2022 - How can climate protection measures be planned from the human perspective and effectively…

Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine intensifies One Health research

Holistic infection research considers humans, animals, habitats, climate and environmental conditions in context. The Bernhard Nocht…

Tag der Reisegesundheit

SAVE THE DATE: Nach zweijähriger pandemiebedingter Pause bieten wir am 04. Februar 2023 wieder unseren geschätzten Tag der Reisegesundheit…

One Health Day 2022

Hamburg / Riems Island 3 November 2022 - The coronavirus pandemic has shown that infection research must consider humans, animals and the…

Epidemiology & Control of Diseases in Outbreak Settings (EPICID)

This is a 3-week intensive course on the principles and methods of epidemiology and the way these inform the control of infectious diseases…

Laboratory Systems and Public Health in Resource-Limited Settings (LAB-SPHERE)

This course prepares you to work with Laboratory Systems and Public Health Infrastructures in Resource-Limited Settings.
Course fee
600…

BNITM: Less greenhouse gases, more mosquito control!

Warmer summers and changes in precipitation bring more mosquitoes and more exotic infectious diseases. This is the simplified scenario that…

Combination drug against malaria

New antimalarial drugs are mostly tested only for malaria tropica, but not for other malaria pathogens. Although available preparations are…

Diploma Course

Of sex differences in infection defence and a truly neglected tropical disease

This year's doctoral prizes of the Association of Friends of the Tropical Institute Hamburg e.V. (VdF) go to Dr Marie Groneberg (Natural…

Modern laboratory diagnostic rapidly detects Marburg virus in Guinea

Hamburg / Conakry, June 30, 2022 - For the first time, researchers have detected the highly contagious and often fatal Marburg virus disease…

Malaria Meeting 2023

Registration & Abstract submission open now! The Malaria Meeting has developed into a scientific event that is respected beyond the borders…

More than two million euros for new junior research group at BNITM

The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) is establishing another BMBF Junior Research Group. Dr. Joachim Michael Matz has…

The immune system: How are mosquitoes coping with their viruses?

Why can mosquitoes transmit certain viruses to humans (arboviruses) and not others (insect-specific viruses)? To find out, the research…

Course of the European Mobile Lab

Hamburg, May 6th, 2022 - The European Mobile Lab hosted a training at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, the first…

BNITM: "We must not let up fighting against this 'forgotten epidemic'!"

Hamburg, April 25th 2022 - On the occasion of Word Malaria Day, the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) calls politics…

Basic seminar travel medicine 2022

Malaria parasites compensate the fitness cost of resistance to the frontline drug artemisinin

A new study on nutrient permeable channels (NPCs) in the parasitophorous vacuolar membrane of malaria parasites highlights the permeability…

Showing solidarity with Ukraine

Scientists at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine work intensively with the Public Health Institute of Ukraine (PHCU), the…

Leibniz Center Infection Symposium 2023

This year's LCI Symposium "Compartments in Infection" will be held at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine on January 26th –…

During the pandemic, the fight against neglected tropical diseases becomes even more important

The Omikron variant has shown that health care in the Global South concerns us all - the "World Day of Neglected Tropical Diseases" on 30…

Über genetischen Code hinaus: Einfluss der Epigenetik auf Infektionen und das Immunsystem

European Commission awards internationally renowned epidemic early warning system

BNITM-Arbovirology and international partners receive 5 million euros