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Research at the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene Mainz
Researchers at the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene aim to elucidate host pathogen interactions to provide a basis for the development of new strategies to fight infectious diseases. Current research at the Institute has evolved over decades: the nineteen-sixties through nineteen-eighties, under the leadership of P. Klein, heralded an era of pioneering studies on complement, interleukins and T-cells, with bacterial virulence factors and molecular biology of viruses emerging as additional themes in the nineteen-eighties. For more than 50 years, Immunology has been at the heart of the Institute´s research activities. In continuation of this tradition, and driven by the quest for the New, current groups explore cell autonomous responses to microbes, aiming to unravel their role for host resilience to infections
- Host Responses to bacterial pore forming Toxins (PFT) (Husmann Laboratory)
- Infection Immunology (Sparwasser Laboratory)
- Mucosal Microbiology and Immunology (Vieira-Silva Laboratory)