Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
The Charité Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine is one of six partners in the DZIF network “Multidrug-resistant Bacteria” (MDRO Network: R-Net 2.0). nvestigations in the network focus on the epidemiology of multidrug-resistant bacteria as well as of bloodstream and Clostridioides difficile infections.
Charité Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine (German only)
The Charité Institute of Virology hosts the working group “Virus detection and preparedness”, an essential infrastructural component of the DZIF research area Emerging Infections, based at the Charité Institute of Virology (Campus Charité Mitte). The group, led by Prof. Christian Drosten, is responsible for the detection of emerging viruses and the development of diagnostic tests for novel and epidemic pathogens. The Institute of Virology is also home to the research group “Innate Immunity and Viral Evasion” of Prof. Christine Goffinet, which characterises mechanisms of intrinsic cellular defences and HIV-1-mediated antagonisation strategies in the DZIF research area HIV.
The research group “Virus Epidemiology", led by Prof Jan Felix Drexler, coordinates the work of several DZIF partner sites on Zika outbreaks in Latin America and collaborates closely with the Hepatitis research area on novel hepatitis viruses from animal reservoirs.