Together against infections: Cooperation agreed with renowned Indian research institute
In April, a total of 15 researchers from the Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg traveled to Indore (India) to share their latest research findings in the field of bacterial infectious diseases and to intensify their existing collaboration during a three-day workshop.
Tuberculosis and other bacterial infections of the respiratory tract pose a major challenge to global health. Some of these pathogens have learned to ensure their survival in defense cells of the immune system and to manipulate their host cells for this purpose. As many of these pathogens have also become insensitive to the available drugs in recent years and have developed so-called resistance, knowledge of their intracellular niche is essential for the development of new specific and effective therapies. Interdisciplinary and international cooperation, taking into account the latest methods such as artificial intelligence, is of enormous importance for this. In order to make joint progress in this field in the coming years, several collaborations in various research projects were agreed at this meeting.
In addition to Prof. Ulrich Schaible, Center Director of the FZB, Dr. Gareth Poster from the research group “Microbial Interfaces” and Dr. Aby Anand from the research group “Host-Microbe Interactome” were also involved in the meeting at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI). The event was organized by Professor Srikanth Karnati from JMU and Professor Avinash Sonawane from IITI, who also holds a visiting professorship at the FZB.
Further information:
- Article in the Mainpost from 20.4.2024 (in German): Erfolgreicher Austausch zwischen Würzburger und indischen Wissenschaftlern (mainpost.de)
- Report on the website of JMU Würzburg: Indisch-deutsche Kooperation in der Infektionsforschung - einBLICK - Online-Magazin der Universität Würzburg (uni-wuerzburg.de)