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Five million euros for research unit 'Sex-specific differences in the immune response‘

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the Research Unit 'Sex-specific Differences in the Immune Response' for another four years…

How tiger mosquito activity affects the risk of chikungunya transmission in Europe

Researchers at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) have investigated how the Asian tiger mosquito transmits the…

Centre for research into climate change and infectious diseases in Latin America established

The Hamburg-based Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) and the Costa Rican Institute for Research and Education in…

LCI Symposium 2025 "One Health - Infections without Boundaries"

Understanding malaria: BNITM researchers develop innovative method

Red blood cells infected with the malaria parasite attach themselves to blood vessels. The more this happens, the more complications malaria…

Success in the 2025 Leibniz Competition

Half a million euros over the next three years to study how climate change affects the mating behaviour of mosquitoes: the Vector Control…

Increasing vaccination rates: strategies beyond compulsory vaccination

Compulsory vaccination sparks intense global debate, yet it represents just one approach to boosting vaccination rates. A review study…

Adaptation artist Lassa virus

Lassa viruses can be transmitted through contact with multi-teat mice (Mastomys natalensis) and can cause severe to fatal fevers in humans.…

Memento Research Prize 2024 for Hamburg tropical medicine specialist

Prof. Michael Ramharter of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf…

8th Plenary Assembly of the Leibniz Research Alliance INFECTIONS at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg

From 28 to 30 October 2024, the members of the Leibniz Research Alliance INFECTIONS met for the 8th Plenary Assembly at the Bernhard Nocht…

Global threat from antibiotic resistance

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest global health threats of our time. In a comprehensive study, an international research…

In search of new active substances from natural remedies

Hamburg, 23 Oktober 2024 – Dr. Fabien Schultz is heading the new junior research group, Ethnopharmacology and Zoopharmacognosy, at the…

Cornelia Betsch appointed to the German Ethics Council

Hamburg, 21 October 2024 - Cornelia Betsch, Head of the Health Communication Working Group at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical…

Nachruf Prof. Dr. Thomas Löscher

Am 12. September verstarb Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Löscher nach längerer Krankheit. Mit großer Trauer nehmen wir Abschied von einem…

Diploma Course 2025

Our classic: The Diploma Course in Tropical Medicine prepares physicians for work in the tropics and is accredited by the Hamburg Medical…

First case of Mpox clade IIa in Guinea

Guinea has confirmed its first case of Mpox, marking the country's initial detection of the virus. The case is from the West African clade…

Forschen, Heilen, Lehren 2023

Kommen Sie zu einer unserer beliebten Infoveranstaltungen im historischen Hörsaal des Bernhard-Nocht-Instituts für Tropenmedizin (BNITM)!…

Book a Scientist 2024 - Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

Call for applications for the Howard and Gabriele Kroch Scholarship

The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) and the Howard and Gabriele Kroch Foundation in Hamburg are pleased to announce…

Success Story: How the GIBACHT training program trains biosafety experts from around the world

Pandemics do not respect national borders. They require a rapid international response. The Global Partnership Initiated Biosecurity…

BNITM researchers on the way to a skin organ model with immune cells

Mosquitoes, bugs and ticks bite humans in the skin. These vectors can infect humans with pathogens that cause diseases such as malaria,…

Combating Mpox

The East African Community (EAC) is facing a major challenge: seven of the eight member states are directly or indirectly affected by the…

Weltmoskitotag | Verstärkte Usutu-Virus-Aktivität

In Deutschland kommt es offenbar erneut zu einem massiven Amselsterben durch das Usutu-Virus. Derzeit treffen täglich Dutzende Päckchen mit…

Composing Coexistence

Location: Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg
Country: Germany
Takes place: In attendance
Deadline: 30 September 2024

BNITM successfully evaluated by the Leibniz Association

The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) has received an excellent evaluation from the Leibniz Association. At its meeting…

Structural elucidation of nameless viruses and insights into immunological overreactions

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

German research contribution to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is not increasing enough

Although Germany is increasing its research into neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), this increase puts it below the average of the ten most…

Caught red-handed

Viruses use the molecular infrastructure of infected host cells for their reproduction. While the viral polymerase replicates the genetic…

Autoimmunity protects against malaria

Malaria is one of the world's leading infectious diseases. It leads to death in many children. Researchers at the Bernhard Nocht Institute…

Infectious master thieves or how malaria parasites steal and digest our red blood pigment

It is a sophisticated molecular mechanism by which malaria parasites take up the contents of their host cells into their own cells and break…

Combining expertise to combat emerging viruses

How exactly are RNA viruses with epidemic potential structured? What happens at the molecular level during an infection? And how does the…

Control or co-existence?

The Mastomys natalensis mouse is the main vector of Lassa virus. A study by the Zoonoses Control Working Group casts doubt on whether its…

LCI Summer School on "Molecular Infectious Diseases Epidemiology"

Doctoral students from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), the Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center (FZB)…

Climate crisis, globalisation and urbanisation

Hamburg on World Malaria Day, 25 April 2024 - Malaria occurs mainly in rural areas: The vector mosquito Anopheles prefers clean natural…

Zero maternal mortality at Ghanaian cooperation hospital of BNITM

The Presbyterian Hospital in Agogo, Ghana, recorded no deaths among women during or after childbirth last year. This is a great medical…

Dead cells support the functionality and diversity of the immune system's phagocytes

You are what you eat - this also applies to certain phagocytes of the innate immune system, the so-called phagocytic macrophages. In a…

New pioneering Leibniz Lab to combat future pandemics

The new Leibniz Lab "Pandemic Preparedness: One Health, One Future" links excellent inter- and transdisciplinary research from 41 Leibniz…

Jugendzukunftstag 2024🏳️‍🌈

Rein in den Kittel, Mund-Nasen-Schutz auf, Handschuhe an und ab ins Labor! Das Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin (BNITM) hat am 20.…

Viral RNA triggers critical steps in Lassa virus life cycle

Understanding viral processes in human host cells is key to developing new antiviral drugs against the Lassa virus. Scientists from several…

Further growth spurt at BNITM

The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) is comprehensively putting its research on a digital footing: From 2025, it will…

Motility crucial for pathogenicity of parasitic amoebae

An infection with the single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica is usually asymptomatic, but it can also lead to an intestinal infection…

BNITM joins Nigeria’s effort to fight the ongoing Lassa fever outbreak

A clinical and laboratory team from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) has been deployed to the epicenter of the…

Rapid epidemic preparedness and response with a global reach

The European Mobile Lab (EMLab) managed at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) is now a certified capacity from…

Focus on the long-term consequences of infections

The emergence of Long COVID has raised awareness of the long-term consequences of infections. However, other infections can also have…

World Day against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) on 30 January 2024

According to estimates by the World Health Organisation (WHO), more than 1.5 billion people are affected by neglected tropical diseases…