The Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF) doesn’t belong to the University Hospital, but its research is closely linked with the health care at the University Hospital Würzburg.
Research focus
- Molecular and genetic characterization of bacterial virulence factors
- Mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions of bacteria
- Molecular biology of nosocomial infections
- Gene regulation and immunology of tropic and parasitic diseases
- Non-coding RNA molecules (RNA Biology)
- Pathogenesis and epidemiology of viral diseases
- Bioinformatics and regenerative medicine
- Clinical hygiene, immunology and microbiology
- Klinische Hygiene und Immunologie und Medizinische Mikrobiologie
Cooperating institutions
- Institute of Molecular Infection Biology
- Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology
- Institute of Virology and Immunobiology
- Department of Internal Medicine II
- Department of Microbiology, Biocenter
- Institute of Organic Chemistry
- Department of Bioinformatics, Biocenter
- Cell and Developmental Biology, Biocenter
- Chair of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry
- Structural Biology, Rudolf Virchow Center
- Chair of Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine
- Tropical Medicine, Mission Hospital
