Working together against deadly Marburg virus
The multidisciplinary European consortium MARVAX will receive 7.4 million euros over the next four years for the research and development of…
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BNITM supports WHO even more strongly in global health care
The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) has another WHO Collaborating Centre: the World Health Organization (WHO) has…
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LCI Symposium on Long-term Consequences of Infections
01.02. -
02.02.2024
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From knowledge to action
Since 2020, the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) has been doing research not only infectious pathogens, vectors and…
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Corona pandemic: distorted memories in vaccinated and unvaccinated people
In the renowned scientific journal Nature, an international team of scientists from Germany, Austria and the USA shows how social…
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Transformable down to the smallest cell structures
Malaria parasites have many faces: in the course of their life cycle, they develop several different cell forms. But how this metamorphosis…
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How dangerous are ticks in Germany really?
Due to global warming and globalisation, both ticks and tick-borne pathogens are spreading in Germany. The cross-institutional research…
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Prof. Dr Marylyn Addo receives Bundesverdienstkreuz
The physician and scientist Prof. Dr Marylyn Addo has been awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal…
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World Mosquito Day 2023
Globalisation and climate change also have consequences for global health: with the increasing movement of goods and travel, exotic…
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On the trail of exotic mosquitoes in Hamburg
Monitoring project in the port: Favoured by globalisation and global warming, exotic mosquito species that can carry pathogens are spreading…
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Attacking the malaria pathogen by the digestive tract
Researchers often find drugs without first understanding their exact conditions and mechanisms of action. At the latest when resistance…
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The yellow fever mosquito: Perfect feeder service for arboviruses
The yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti can transmit a variety of viruses to humans, so-called arboviruses. Three prominent examples are…
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Anniversary of the German Biosafety Programme
The Federal Foreign Office launched the German Biosafety Programme on 01.07.2013. Since then, it has worked with partner institutions in up…
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Malaria, ringworm and its significance for anaemia | Lassa viruses in rodents: not only infectious but also hereditary
This year's doctoral prizes of the Association of Friends of the Tropical Institute Hamburg e.V. (VdF) go to Dr Wiebke Herr (Medicine) and…
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LCI Summer School on "Perspectives on Structural and Systems Biology"
This year's Summer School of the Leibniz Center Infection (LCI) on the topic "Perspectives in Structure and Systems Biology in Infection"…
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DTG Prize for BNITM Researcher Johannes Mischlinger
Johannes Mischlinger, MD, laboratory group leader at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), was awarded the "Prize for…
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VISION: New DFG Research Training Group for cutting-edge virology research in Northern Germany
Viruses can not only make us humans ill, but in the worst case they can also shake up social and economic structures. The Corona pandemic…
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Promising viral targets for a broad-spectrum virostatic agent
Die BMBF-Nachwuchsgruppe um Dr. Maria Rosenthal am Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin (BNITM) hat neue Erkenntnisse zu einem…
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tropEd Global Health Summer School 2024
02.09.2024 - 06.09.2024
This is a 5-day online summer school on current issues in Global Health and tropEd.
Timetable: 9:30 - 11:00 am; 11:30 - 13:00 pm; 14:00 -…
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Fiocruz and BNITM deepen proven cooperation
It is one of the oldest collaborations of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM): As early as 1908, Gustav Giemsa, the…
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Resistance, mosquito invasion and climate change raise concern in the fight against malaria
Hamburg, April 25th 2023 - On the occasion of today's World Malaria Day, the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) warns…
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Institute for Tropical Medicine to be modernised
Since 1914, the renowned Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) has been housed in a clinker brick building designed by…
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eWHORM Project Launched to Eliminate Worm Infections in Sub-Saharan Africa
African and European partners join forces to enable the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) “Road Map for Neglected Tropical Diseases” (NTDs)…
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ParasiteWeb®: Zeitgemäße virtuelle Ringversuche für medizinische Labore
ParasiteWeb® erlaubt mit nahtlosem Zoomen und interaktiver Fokussierung die Exploration der digitalen Probe wie unter einem Mikroskop
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DGPI-iiK 2023
5.-7. Oktober 2023
Hybrid-infektiologischer intensivKurs (iiK) der DGPI
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Better infection diagnostics through spin-off at BNITM
Hamburg, 28 March 2023 - Scientists with entrepreneurial spirit: Researchers at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM)…
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EFIS-EJI-Summer School 2023
With pleasure we invite PhD students to participate in the 12th South Eastern European Immunology School (SEEIS2023), financed by the…
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Malaria experts present latest research results
Shortly before World Malaria Day, malaria experts will present the latest research results on drugs, vaccines, immunology, epidemiology and…
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International CSSB Symposium
03.05. -
05.05.2023
The CSSB Symposium 2023 will focus on the biology of infections and highlight different key cellular processes leading to pathogen…
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Living with Ebola
The recent Ebola outbreaks in West and East Africa appear to be linked to previous outbreaks in the region. This is what molecular…
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Detect and manage disease outbreaks at an early stage
Hamburg / Riems / Berlin, 16 February 2023 - High summer temperatures, mild winters, changing precipitation: Climate change is increasing…
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Mirjam Groger receives Wolfgang Stille Science Award
Die Ärztin und Wissenschaftlerin Dr. Mirjam Groger erhält den renommierten Wolfgang-Stille-Preis 2022. Damit ehrt die PEG sie für ihre…
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First scientific study on snakebites in Malawi provides important epidemiological data
When it comes to snakebites, three things count: speed, well-trained medical staff and an effective antivenom. The first study on snakebite…
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Symposium zum Thema "Compartments in Infection"
Auf dem diesjährigen LCI-Symposium „Compartments in Infection wurden neuste wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zur Rolle von Nischen im Körper…
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Global-Partnership-Initiated-Biosecurity-Academia for Controlling Health Threats (GIBACHT)
19.03.2024 - 28.02.2025
GIBACHT is an educational programme established and supported by the German Federal Foreign Office. The training programme focuses on…
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Cell compartments as niches for survival of infectious agents in the body
Hamburg, 20.01.2023 – The diverse strategies of infectious pathogens to survive and multiply in the host and how we could use these…
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Leibniz Center Infection Symposium 2023
January 26-27, 2023
This year's LCI Symposium "Compartments in Infection" was held at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine.
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