Faculty
Several internationally recognized research groups of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, the Humboldt University, the Free University of Berlin, the University Hospital Charité, the Robert Koch Institute and the Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research are involved in the Berlin Research School for Infectious Diseases and Immunology. They cover a wide range of scientific areas including microbiology, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology and immunology. You can find a short description of the major research interests of each group leader and a selection of key publications when you click on the links below. The introductions to the research groups will help you to decide which are your three favourite research fields when you apply to the Research School.

List of faculty members
Bogner, Elke (GRK1121)

  • Research Focus
    - Human Cytomegalovirus
Dirnagl, Ulrich (IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Cerebral ischemia and stroke
    - Brain - immune interaction and CNS Inflammation
    - Regulation of cerebral blood flow
    - Functional and molecular brain imaging
Genersch, Elke (GRK1121)

  • Research Focus
    - Pathogen-Host Interactions in the Honeybee
Greenwood, Alex (IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Diseases of Wildlife Species
    - Pathogen Load and Health Status of Wildlife Species
    - Diseases and Population Dynamics
Hamann, Alf (GRK1121 and IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Topographical memory of T cells
  • - Immune regulation, tolerance and immunotherapy
Hartmann, Susanne (GRK1121 and IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Immunmodulation by parasites
Heppner, Frank (IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - acute and chronic CNS infection
  • - role of microglia
Herrmann, Andreas (GRK1121 and IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Viral Fusion Proteins
    - Virus Entry and Replication
Hofer, Heribert (GRK1121 and IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Pathogen-Host Interactions in the Wildlife
    - Adaptations and Immunocompetence of
    Host Species
    - Co-evolution of Pathogen and Host
Kaufmann, Stefan H. E. (IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Vaccination and Drugs against Tuberculosis
    - Immune Responses to Intracellular Bacteria
    - Chronic Inflammations
Krüger, Detlev (GRK1121 and IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Hantavirus and Hantavirus Infections
Lehnardt, Seija (IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Innate Immune Receptors in Inflammatory
    Neurodegeneration
Löhning, Max (GRK1121 and IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Cellular and Molecular Understanding of the
    Immunological Memory
Lucius, Richard (GRK1121 and IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Parasitic Nematodes
Matuschewski, Kai (GRK1121 and IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Plasmodium-Host Interaction
Melchers, Fritz (IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Development of the Immune system from Stem Cells
Meyer, Thomas F. (GRK1121 and IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Pathogen-Host Cell Crosstalk
    - Global Analyses of Infections
    - Nucleus Biology of Infections
    - Translational InfectionBiology
Opitz, Bastian (IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Pathogen Sensing and Host Response in the Lung
Osterrieder, Klaus (GRK1121 and IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Varicella Zoster Virus
    - Marek's Disease Virus
    - Equine Herpesvirus Type 1
Radbruch, Andreas (GRK1121 and IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Understand the "Pathogenic" Memory
    - Strategies against Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases
Saumweber, Harald (IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Chromatin Proteins and the Control of Gene Expression
Schönrich, Günther (GRK1121)

  • Research Focus
    - Virus-Host Interactions
Siegmund, Britta (IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Role of Adipocytes
  • - Histone-Deacetylases
Suttorp, Norbert (IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
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Tedin, Karsten (GRK1121)

  • Research Focus
    - Salmonella Pathogenesis
    - Influence of Probiotics
Thiel, Andreas (IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Aging / Immunesenescence
    - T-­cell immunity
    - Regenerative immunology / Adoptive T-­cell therapies
Volk, Hans-Dieter (GRK1121 and IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Diagnosis and Treatment of Immunological Diseases
Wardemann, Hedda (GRK1121 and IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Development and Regulation of Autoantibodies
    - Autoantibodies in Infections and Autoimmune Diseases
Wieler, Lothar (GRK1121 and IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Interdisciplinary Research on Zoonoses
Wolff, Thorsten (GRK1121 and IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Surveillance and molecular epidemiology
    - Molecular pathogenesis
Zychlinsky, Arturo (GRK1121 and IMPRS)

  • Research Focus
    - Apoptosis
    - Neutrophils
    - Toll-like Receptors
    - Type III Secretion