Epidemiology investigates the occurrence and distribution of diseases within the population. Moreover, molecular biology techniques are used in molecular epidemiology.
Detailed description
Epidemiologists use mainly statistical methods to make statements about the incidence of a disease in a population or to simulate the spread of an epidemic with models. Molecular epidemiology gains insights from the molecular properties of a human or a pathogen.
Prof. Ernst's working group operates at the interface of molecular microbiology, genomics, epidemiology and chemical biology to identify, investigate, and target unrecognised pathways in persistent and multidrug-resistant infections. To this end, the group conducts mechanistic investigations ...
DZIF scientist and epidemiologist Prof. Gérard Krause will join the World Health Organisation (WHO) on 1 March 2023, where he will become the director of a newly established Department for
The 2022 Prize for Translational Infection Research of the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), endowed with 5,000 euros, goes to the DZIF scientist and epidemiologist Gérard Krause. Prof
The Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) in Ghana is celebrating its 25th anniversary and its successful infection research with a ceremony and a scientific symposium
