25.03.2025

The German Center for Infection Research in focus

The German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) has produced and released a new film about the broad spectrum of its activities. At the DZIF, over 700 researchers in 35 member institutions at seven partner sites work together on the greatest challenges of infection research for the benefit of all people. The goal is translation—the transfer of scientific knowledge from basic research to practical application. But what exactly does that mean? What diseases are the DZIF's research projects focused on? How does this huge network work in practice? And who works with whom? "We launched our new video to answer exactly these questions—for everyone interested in the work of the Center," says Dr. Timo Jäger, Managing Director of the DZIF.

Full article on the DZIF website: https://www.dzif.de/en/exciting-insights-cutting-edge-infection-research

The University Hospital Bonn is one of the DZIF’s 35 research institutions, with researchers at the Institute of Medical Microbiology Immunology and Parasitology working on DZIF areas like Novel Antibiotics; a example being corallopyronin A and neglected tropical diseases. Prof. Achim Hoerauf, director IMMIP, is the Deputy Partner Site Speaker Bonn-Köln and Deputy Coordinator of the DZIF research area Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases. In the DZIF video, (min: 5.45,) Prof. Hörauf speaks on the development of new antibiotics, like corallopyronin A.