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Public Events 14.12.2022

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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Press releases 29.11.2022

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

Kumasi/Hamburg – Mit einem Festakt und einem wissenschaftlichen Symposium begeht das Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical…

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Announcements 17.11.2022

Why behavioural research plays an important role in climate protection

Erfurt / Hamburg, 17. November 2022 – Wie können Klimaschutzmaßnahmen vom Menschen her geplant und kommunikativ wirksam begleitet werden?…

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Research Highlights 11.11.2022

Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine intensifies One Health research

Eine ganzheitliche Infektionsforschung betrachtet Mensch, Tier, Lebensräume, Klima- und Umweltbedingungen im Zusammenhang. Das…

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Professional Events 21.11.2023

Tag der Reisegesundheit

17.02.2024 Read more
Professional Events 04.11.2022

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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Press releases 03.11.2022

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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Public Events 16.10.2022

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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Professional Events 30.08.2022

Epidemiology & Control of Diseases in Outbreak Settings (EPICID)

11th to 29th November 2024

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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Professional Events 29.08.2022

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

16th to 27th September 2024

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

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Press releases 20.08.2022

BNITM: Less greenhouse gases, more mosquito control!

Wärmere Sommer und veränderte Niederschläge bringen mehr Stechmücken und mehr exotische Infektionskrankheiten mit sich. Das ist stark…

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Research Highlights 16.08.2022

Combination drug against malaria

Neue Malariamedikamente werden meist nur für die Malaria tropica getestet, nicht aber für andere Malariaerreger. Verfügbare Präparate finden…

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Professional Events 04.07.2022

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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Announcements 01.07.2022

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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Press releases 30.06.2022

Modern laboratory diagnostic rapidly detects Marburg virus in Guinea

Hamburg / Conakry, 30. Juni 2022 – Erstmals hat eine internationale Forschungsgruppe die hochansteckende und oftmals auch tödlich…

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Announcements 29.06.2022

Ebola – Virologen reisen nach Guinea

Aktueller Stand & Hintergründe Hamburg – Am 26. März 2014 sind sechs internationale Wissenschaftler im Rahmen des „European Mobile…

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Announcements 29.06.2022

European Mobile Laboratory Project assists WHO in Ebola Outbreak in Guinea

official press release As part of the international response to the current Ebola outbreak in Guinea, WHO and the Global Outbreak Alert…

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Announcements 29.06.2022

Neuer Ebola-Stamm in Guinea identifiziert

Am 16. April 2014 hat eine Gruppe internationaler Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler einen wissenschaftlichen Artikel zum…

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Press releases 24.06.2022

Jahrzehntelanger Schutz nach Ebola-Infektion eines Menschen

Gute Aussichten für einen Ebola-Impfstoff Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler des Bernhard-Nocht-Instituts für Tropenmedizin (BNITM)…

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Announcements 16.06.2022

Charakteristisches Immunsignal bei Ebola-Patienten in Guinea

Heinrich-Pette-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Experimentelle Virologie & Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin: Schlüsselkomponente der…

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Press releases 16.06.2022

Staatssekretärin Dr. Flachsbarth (BMEL) gibt Startschuss für Forschungsprojekte zu Stechmücken am Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin

Einladung zum Pressegespräch: Tropeninstitut koordiniert größtes Verbundprojekt zur Stechmückenforschung in Deutschland Hamburg /…

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Professional Events 02.02.2023

Malaria Meeting 2023

23 March, 10 am - 24 March, 4 pm

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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Professional Events 02.06.2022

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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Announcements 31.05.2022

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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Research Highlights 20.05.2022

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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Announcements 06.05.2022

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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Public Events 28.04.2022

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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Press releases 25.04.2022

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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Professional Events 24.04.2022

14th Summer School for Young Parasitologists

08.08. - 12.08.2022 Read more
Public Events 24.03.2022

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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Research Highlights 09.03.2022

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…

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Announcements 03.03.2022

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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Press releases 30.01.2022

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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Press releases 24.01.2022

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

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Press releases 17.01.2022

European Commission awards internationally renowned epidemic early warning system

Hamburg, 17 January 2022 - The Department of Arbovirology at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), headed by Prof.…

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Professional Events 10.01.2022

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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