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• Diagnostik
        - Molekulare Diagnostik
• Antibiotic Stewardship (ABS)
• AG Individualisierte Klinische Mikrobiologie
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Informationen zum Arbeitsbereich Krankenhaushygiene finden Sie hier

Im Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Krankenhaushygiene werden verschiedene Fragestellungen der Infektionsimmunologie und der molekularen Mikrobiologie bearbeitet.

Auf den folgenden Seiten finden Sie detaillierte Angaben der einzelnen Arbeitsgruppen und der entsprechenden Forschungsgebiete:

• AG Schlüter
• AG Gopala Krishna
• AG Graßl
• AG Lochner
• AG Vital
• AG Winstel
• AG Individualisierte molekulare und klinische Mikrobiologie (AG IMKM)

Die Arbeitsgruppen des Instituts sind in die folgenden nationalen und internationalen Forschungsnetzwerke integriert:

• DZIF Deutsches Zentrum für Infektionsforschung
• Exzellenzcluster Resist

Publikationen des Instituts für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Krankenhaushygiene

Lehraufgaben und Lehrangebot des Instituts erstrecken sich auf:

• Studierende der Humanmedizin im Klinischen Studienabschnitt
• Studierende der Zahnmedizin im Klinischen Studienabschnitt
• Studierende der Biologie im gemeinsamen Studiengang Biologie der Universitäten Hannovers
• Studierende im Studiengang Infektionsbiologie
• Studierende der Biochemie
• Studierende der Biomedizin 
• Studierende des internationalen Masterstudiengangs "Infectious Diseases - One Health (IDOH)"
• Studierende des Masterstudiengangs Biomedizinische Datenwissenschaften

Zusätzlich werden umfangreiche Lehraufgaben an den Lehranstalten und Schulen der Fachberufe des Gesundheitswesens der MHH wahrgenommen.

• DGHM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie
• DGP Deutsche Gesellschaft für Parasitologie
• DGfI Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie
• DZIF Deutsches Zentrum für Infektionsforschung
• Exzellenzcluster Resist

The DFG Research Training Group 3135

“Activation of Cellular anti-Microbial Effectors”

is seeking highly qualified and motivated individuals for

10 PhD Student Fellowships in Infection Biology of Human Pathogens

(starting April 1, 2026)

The German Research Foundation (DFG) provides funding to Hannover Medical School (MHH), the TWINCORE in Hannover and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig to maintain a Research Training Group (RTG) (coordinator: Dirk Schlüter, Hannover). The central aim of the programme is to give young researchers the opportunity to perform their PhD work in the rapidly moving field of the infection biology of human microbial pathogens in a highly stimulating, competitive, international environment.

Summary:

Infections are among the most common diseases worldwide and impose a high socio-economic burden. Despite progress in prevention and therapy, they remain among the leading causes of death worldwide. The increasing antibiotic resistance of bacteria and the lack of effective antiviral drugs represent a major problem. In particular, new therapeutic approaches are urgently needed for intracellular infections caused by facultative intracellular bacteria and viruses. This RTG is based on the central hypothesis that cell-intrinsic defense mechanisms can be activated or modulated to control intracellular pathogens effectively. To exploit this potential, the scientific goal of the RTG is to identify and characterize novel, modulable cellular effectors that (i) directly recognize, control, or eliminate the pathogen, (ii) prevent the pathogen from bypassing cell-intrinsic defense mechanisms or (iii) regulate the cell death of the infected cell. Since the protective cellular mechanisms are pathogen- and host-cell-specific, and to exploit synergies in the investigation of the complex and mutually regulating mechanisms, the focus of the RTG is on human infections caused by alpha-herpes and influenza viruses, as well as on bacteria, for which intracellular infections are a major part of their pathogenesis.

The 13 scientists whose expertise synergistically complements each other will jointly apply innovative high-end omics techniques in combination with state-of-the-art methods in bioinformatics, cell and molecular biology, and biochemistry in conjunction with artificial intelligence in the 10 projects. The experimentally identified protective host-cell mechanisms will be validated in relevant infection models such as human organoids, induced pluripotent stem cells, and primary human cells. The future of this dynamic research area depends on the next generation of scientists and physicians being excellently trained in innovative scientific techniques and soft skills. Therefore, the RTG's comprehensive training program integrates the structured joint training of doctoral students in the natural sciences and medicine and early-career medical and clinician scientists, combined with targeted, individual career support. The internationality of the RTG, both in the scientific projects and in the training program, is supported by the international composition of the group of participating scientists and the intensive collaboration with renowned infection researchers at Aarhus University (Denmark).

Planned salary: 65 % TVL E13 for up to four years.

Applicaction process:

Candidates who hold the equivalent of a master’s or diploma degree in Biology, Biochemistry or Life Sciences, or who graduated in medicine are welcome to apply. Those applicants who are selected for interviews in a first round of screening will be asked to attend an online selection workshop and/or interview in Hannover.

The website for online application will be published here soon.