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CiiM Lecture Series
Event Archive CiiM Lecture Series Internationally renowned scientists from the field of Personalised Medicine are invited to the CiiM Lecture Series. It aims to bring together all scientists and doctors interested in personalised medicine from the various…
Event Archive
Event Archive CiiM Lecture Series Herrenhausen Symposium "Individualised Infection Medicine: The Future is Now" 25. Impfsymposium
Media Centre
Media Centre Mediathek Here you can download CiiM information material. We would also be happy to send you the copies you would like by post. Please order them by E-Mail or phone +49 511 22002 7226. Flyer CiiM-Flyer-EN-web_190909.pdf pdf (1.52 MB) Contact…
What is Individualised Medicine?
What is Individualised Medicine? Topics What is Individualised Medicine? In medicine, the development and application of therapies with maximum efficacy and minimum side effects remains a fundamental challenge. In fact, approved therapies and medicines…
Topics
Topics What is Individualised Medicine? Facets and added value of Individualised Medicin Characteristics of Individualised Infection Medicine
COVID-19 Patient Cohort
COVID-19 Patient Cohort Understanding individual risk and predictability of severe COVID-19 CiiM is involved in the establishment of a COVID-19 patient cohort. The project, led by Prof. Dr. Thomas Illig from the Hannover Unified Biobank (MHH), is funded by…
NUM
NUM Local Coordination Units (LCU) of the Network of University Medicine (NUM) Providing patients with optimal care, preventing infections and expanding healthcare is the mission statement of the Network of University Medicine (NUM), which was founded in…
SARS-CoV-2 Research
SARS-CoV-2 Research Forschung SARS-CoV-2 Research The research groups at CiiM are collaborating to address various current issues in SARS-CoV-2 research. The very diverse clinical histories suggest that a mixture of epidemiological, genetic, and…
Project D-Solve
D-SOLVE EU-Project Logo D-SOLVE The path to personalised hepatitis D treatment Hepatitis D is by far the most severe form of chronic viral hepatitis frequently leading to liver failure, hepatocellular carcinoma and death. However, there is very limited…
Selected projects
Selected projects Research On the way to individualized infection medicine In various projects, the research groups of CiiM, but also groups of HZI, MHH and TWINCORE are dedicated to different questions in the field of infection medicine and lay important…
Our program
Our program Research Realising innovation Infections and their sequelae continue to account for one in five deaths worldwide. In this context, emerging and recurrent pathogens, chronic infections, as well as increasing resistance to approved drugs, continue…
Field of research
Field of research Research Individualized medicine Medicine has always strived to understand the specifics of each patient in order to provide the best possible individualized treatment. In this context, it has become increasingly clear in recent years that…
Ciim | Partner
Partner About us A strong network for the requirements of Individualized Infection Medicine. The embedding of CiiM in the region's existing research network ensures access to patients, interdisciplinary expertise and state-of-the-art technology. Through the…
Update Construction
Update Construction Location & Building Construction schedule and current work in progress In the following, we provide information on the planned construction process and current work in progress. Status August 2024 Current work in progress until December…
Organisation
Organisation About us The Structure of the CiiM The CiiM is a joint scientific institution (§ 36 NHG) formed by the founding partners HZI and MHH and was established in 2015 with the signing of a Letter of Intent. The basic principles of the collaboration…
Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine
The CiiM About us Center for Individualised Infection Medicine The CiiM ( Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine ) is a joint initiative of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig and the Hannover Medical School (MHH). The…
Location & Building
Location & Building About us A Designated Building for Individualized Infection Medicine The Location Hannover - Braunschweig is one of the most important German research regions in the field of infectiology. The close partnership between the HZI in…
COVID-19 Patientenkohorte hilft bei Aufklärung des Patientenrisikos
Aus der MHH stammen Bioproben und Daten der „ COVID-19-Kohorte “, die seit März 2020 von unterschiedlich stark am Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 erkrankten Patientinnen und Patienten sowie Kontrollproben von Menschen mit anderen Atemwegserkrankungen aus verschiedenen…
Joint symposium of HZI and McGill University on personalised infection medicine
Personalised infection medicine aims to take into account individual differences in the diagnosis and therapy of infectious diseases. The HZI and McGill University have been building a strategic cooperation on this topic for several years. Clinicians and scientists from…
Dr Zhi-Luo Deng
Prof Dr Dr Luka Cicin-Sain
Prof Dr Cheng-Jian Xu
Dr Nasim Safaei
Dr Tetyana Yevsa
Prof Dr Alice McHardy
Cornelia Senske
Diego Enrique Ortiz Quiroga
Katrin Anja Winter
Agata Anna Bielecka
Dr Lisa Osbelt-Block
Dr Till Robin Lesker
Prof Dr Till Strowig
Dr Yvonne Neumann
Dr Youssef el Mouali Benomar
Karina Watzke
Maeva Katzmarzyk
Dr Najat Bdeir
Ronja Friedhoff
Ayse Barut
Tatjana Lüddecke
Henrike Maaß
Claudia Munzel
Dr Upasana Kulkarni
Dr Natascha Gödecke
Dr Henning Jacobsen
Roni Souleiman
Noemi Siegert
Ansgar Schnieders
Paulina Schröter
Dr Anke Kraft
Alevtina Okhotnikova
Javier Fransisco Bataller
Yin-Han Chou
Martijin Zoodsma
Nienke van Unen
Ahmed Alaswad
Liang Zhou
Herrenhausen Symposium
Event Archive Herrenhausen Symposium Individualised Infection Medicine: The Future is Now Infektionen sind nach wie vor eine der Haupttodesursachen weltweit. Individuell zugeschnittene Vorsorge und Therapien versprechen neue Heilungsmöglichkeiten. Wie aber…
Dr Saumya Dileep Kumar
Dr Zhenhua Zhang
Dr Jian-bo Fu
Dr Nhan Nguyen
Dr Xun Jiang
Hagen Schmaus
Dr Dorothee von Witzendorff
Lara Marie Lütke
Dr Sebastian Klein
Helena Lickei
“Aging Clock” reveals aging processes in immune cells
As we age, our immune system also ages. We become more susceptible to infections, vaccinations work less well and the risk of developing immune-related disorders such as autoimmune diseases increases. “In order to better understand how and where exactly the immune…
Dr Sebastian Klein
Prof Dr Yang Li
Prof Dr Yang Li CiiM Director - CiiM +49 511 220027200 E-Mail Yang Li has headed the Department of Computational Biology for Individualised Medicine at the CiiM and the HZI since 2019 and was also appointed Director of the CiiM. The focus of her research is…
Prof Dr Yang Li
Imprint
Imprint according to the following German regulations: § 6 TDG, § 10 MDStV Publisher Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research) Inhoffenstraße 7 38124 Braunschweig Telefon: 0531 6181-0 Telefax: 0531 6181-2655…
Lisa Spatt
Data protection
Data protection Data protection Thank you for your interest in our website. The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) takes the protection of personal data very seriously. It is possible to use our website without providing any personal data. This…
Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine
Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine The CiiM, based in Hannover, is a joint research institute of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and the Hannover Medical School. More about the CiiM What is individualised medicine? For some years now,…
Five HZI scientists are “Highly-cited Researchers”
Bioinformatician Prof Alice McHardy uses computational techniques to research the human microbiome as well as viral and bacterial pathogens. She heads the department “Computational Biology for Infection Research” at BRICS (Braunschweig Integrated Center of Systems…
Lyme disease: Probability of developing the disease is genetically predisposed
If a tick is infected with the pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi s. l. (sensu lato = in the broader sense), these bacteria can be transmitted to humans through a tick bite and cause illness. Various organ systems can be affected: the skin, the nervous system or the joints.…
What leads to severe COVID-19?
The team was able to identify underlying regulators of the malfunction of the innate immune system in COVID-19 patients and confirm that certain already known genetic risk loci play a role in the development of COVID-19. The results have been published in the journal…
A virus lurking in the connective tissue
As part of the new study, Dr Katarzyna Sitnik, then working in the “Viral Immunology” department at the HZI, headed by Prof Luka Cicin-Sain, and her colleagues naturally infected mice with murine CMV (mCMV). This variant of the virus is used because human CMV (HCMV) is…
Why the flu vaccine is less effective in older people
Every year at the beginning of October, the flu epidemic rolls around. “Because older people in particular have an increased risk of a severe course of the disease, effective vaccines are especially important for them,” says Prof. Yang Li, Scientific Director of the…
Hijacking in the immune system
Up to 90% of the world's population carries HCMV. In people with a normal immune system, the infection is usually subclinical, i.e. it does not cause any pronounced symptoms. However, in immunocompromised patients, such as organ transplant recipients, the infection can…
ERC Proof of Concept Grant for Yang Li
“Prof. Dr. Yang Li impressively combines insights from the life sciences and data science in her research. In doing so, she is laying the foundation for new possibilities for individually adapted diagnoses and therapies in medicine. As head of the Centre for…
Dr Xun Jiang
Dr Maximilian Schieck
Beate Junk
The path to personalised hepatitis D treatment
Hepatitis D is caused by coinfection of hepatitis B patients with the hepatitis D virus (HDV). Up to 20 Million individuals are infected with HDV worldwide including about 250.000 patients in the European Union. There is very limited knowledge on disease pathophysiology…
When the skin aches
It was already known that in both psoriasis and neurodermatitis, T-cells of the immune system migrate from the blood into the skin and drive the inflammation there. Detailed examination of T-cells in blood and skin now led to evidence that in atopic dermatitis they…
Who benefits from immunotherapy against hepatitis B?
It is estimated that more than 250 million people worldwide are chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus. Cytotoxic T cells and T helper cells play an important role in fighting viral infections. The constant activation of these immune cells in chronically…
Melanie Rodenberg
Patrick Kaufhold
Jobs at CiiM
Jobs at CiiM Applications Join the team CiiM is growing and the CiiM groups are always happy to receive applications from motivated and qualified candidates. Open job advertisements can be found on the group pages. In addition, speculative applications are…
Characteristics of Individualised Infection Medicine
Characteristics of Individualised Infection Medicine The page is under construction.
Facets and added value of Individualised Medicine
Facets and added value of Individualised Medicine The page is under construction.
Severin Wulf
Dr Manoj Kumar Gupta
Moana Witte
Melanie Urbanek-Quaing
Valerie Ohlendorf
Dr Christian Niehaus
Ayesha Lietzau
Julia Moch
Carlos Oltmanns
Erich Freyer
Events
Events Scientific 30 January 2025 1.00 pm CAIMed Meet-up AI Powered Approaches in Infection Research Host: TWINCORE Show more events Show all events
Jobs
Jobs © AdobeStock_294726409 Initiativbewerbungen Become part of the team We are always interested in receiving applications from motivated candidates. More © HZI PhD Program Initiative "Curiosity is infectious" With the initiative “Curiosity is infectious”,…
MHH Professor Tobias Welte passed away
Welte was a highly valued partner and colleague to many researchers at the HZI. Particularly close collaborations with Tobias Welte existed, for example, with the HZI "Epidemiology" department under the direction of Prof. Gérard Krause (now WHO) and currently Dr. Berit…
Team
Team Since its foundation in 2015, the CiiM has grown continuously and coordinative and administrative teams have been created alongside the research groups .
Prof Dr med. Michael Peter Manns
New Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and causal methods in Medicine
The digitalization of the life sciences opens up completely new potential for tackling common diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. The Center therefore focuses on linking research data, clinical…
[Translate to English:] Zentrum für Individualisierte Infektionsmedizin feiert Richtfest
„Für eine bestmögliche Prävention von Infektionskrankheiten und maßgeschneiderte Therapien für Patientinnen und Patienten sind eine leistungsstarke Infektionsforschung und innovative Lösungen im Bereich der personalisierten Medizin unerlässlich. Bereits heute gehen…
Groundbreaking for the Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine (CiiM)
"The COVID-19 pandemic has just shown us how important infection research and personalised medicine are - and that research findings need to to be transferred more quickly from bench to bedside," said Lower Saxony's Science Minister Falko Mohrs. “The life sciences are…
Research Groups
Research The groups at CiiM Four research groups of the HZI and the MHH are currently directly assigned to CiiM and are housed in TWINCORE until the new building is commissioned. In addition, other professorships at MHH (some as joint appointments with HZI)…
Prof Dr Markus Cornberg
Prof Dr med. Markus Cornberg CiiM Director - CiiM +49 511 532 6821 E-Mail Markus Cornberg is W3-Professor Infectious Diseases with a focus on Hepatology and Deputy Director of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and…
