World NTD Day 2023
January 30, 2023, 5-8 pm
Worldwide, nearly two billion people are at risk of becoming incapacitated, blind, disfigured, disabled or dying earlier due to neglected…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Tag der Reisegesundheit
04.02.2023
SAVE THE DATE: Nach zweijähriger pandemiebedingter Pause bieten wir am 04. Februar 2023 wieder unseren geschätzten Tag der Reisegesundheit…
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Meeting on Snakebite Envenoming
17.11.2022
Join the the first scientific meeting organised by our newly established Snakebite Poisoning Research Group.
Venue: Historical Lecture Hall…
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One Health Day 2022
Hamburg / Riems Island 3 November 2022 - The coronavirus pandemic has shown that infection research must consider humans, animals and the…
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Forschen, Heilen, Lehren 2022
20.12.2022
Einmal im Quartal stellt das Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin seine Arbeit der Öffentlichkeit vor. Gäste erhalten einen Überblick…
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Epidemiology & Control of Diseases in Outbreak Settings (EPICID)
30.10. -
17.11.2023
This is a 3-week intensive course on the principles and methods of epidemiology and the way these inform the control of infectious diseases…
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Laboratory Systems and Public Health in Resource-Limited Settings (LAB-SPHERE)
Cancelled
This course prepares you to work with Laboratory Systems and Public Health Infrastructures in Resource-Limited Settings.
Course fee
600…
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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…
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Combination drug against malaria
New antimalarial drugs are mostly tested only for malaria tropica, but not for other malaria pathogens. Although available preparations are…
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Conference on Schistosomiasis Control Strategies in Madagascar (CCSM)
21.10.2022
On 21 October 2022 we are delighted to welcome you all to CCSM, the first Malagasy conference on schistosomiasis. Antananarivo, as the…
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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…
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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…
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Malaria Meeting 2023
23.03. -
24.03.2023
The Malaria Meeting has developed into a scientific event that is respected beyond the borders of Germany, where both clinicians and…
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LCI Summer School
02.05. -
05.05.2022
For the first time since the beginning of the corona pandemic, the Summer School of the Leibniz Center Infection (LCI) took place again…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Der Girls' & Boys' Day 2023 muss leider entfallen!
28.04.2022
Endlich wieder Gäste! Mehr als 30 Jugendliche haben Kristalle gefischt, Mücken nach Geschlecht sortiert, mit Viren und Zellen gearbeitet,…
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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…
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14th Summer School for Young Parasitologists
08.08. -
12.08.2022
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Book a Scientist 2021 - Leibniz Gemeinschaft
18.03.2021 10:30
Speed Dating mit der Wissenschaft – am 18.03.21 beantworten Maria Rosenthal, Rosa Isela Gálvez und Thomas Jacobs sowie viele weitere…
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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…
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Showing solidarity with Ukraine
Scientists at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine work intensively with the Public Health Institute of Ukraine (PHCU), the…
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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…
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Über genetischen Code hinaus: Einfluss der Epigenetik auf Infektionen und das Immunsystem
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European Commission awards internationally renowned epidemic early warning system
BNITM-Arbovirology and international partners receive 5 million euros
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LCI-Symposium 2022
27.01. -
28.03.2022
At this year's LCI Symposium "Epigenetics & Memory in Infection & Immunity", a total of four keynote lectures and 14 presentations…
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