Institute for Tropical Medicine Tübingen

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The Institute for Tropical Medicine, Travel Medicine, Human Parasitosis (ITM) specializes in infectious diseases, tropical diseases and human parasitoses. With around 100 employees, it operates a tropical and travel medical outpatient clinic as well as teaching and research projects on tropical medicine issues.

history

As early as the 19th century, tropical medical diseases in Tübingen were researched primarily by FG ​​Gmelin (1782–1848), Wilhelm von Rapp (1774–1868) and Wilhelm Griesinger (1817–1868). Both Theodor Bilharz (first description in 1851 of the Schistosoma pair in Egypt) and Otto Wucherer (first description in 1868 of a microfilaria, a worm larva, in Brazil) studied with them.

On July 2, 1917, Gottlieb Olpp was appointed associate professor for tropical medicine at the University of Tübingen. The Institute for Tropical Medicine was founded in 1956. In 2006 it was formally incorporated into the Medical Clinic at the University Hospital Tübingen as the Department of "Internal Medicine VII - Institute for Tropical Medicine, Travel Medicine, Human Parasitology".

research

Scientific studies on infectious diseases such as malaria , schistosomiasis , tuberculosis , filariasis , as well as clinical drug and vaccine studies are carried out. The main focus of the research projects is the testing of new anti-malarial drugs and vaccines with the help of controlled plasmodia infections in healthy volunteers or in African malaria patients. Achievements of the institute are the co-development of anti-malarial drugs like atovaquone-proguanil, amodiaquine-artesunate, pyronaridine-artesunate and vaccines against malaria and Ebola.

According to the laboratory journal , 11 scientists from the institute are among the 50 most cited scientists in the field of parasitology in German-speaking countries; in an international context, Peter G. Kremsner has been Germany's most cited scientist in this field for two decades.

Teaching

The institute has three W3 professorships (Peter G. Kremsner since 1996, Akim Ayola Adegnika since 2016, Benjamin Mordmüller since 2017).

The target group of teaching are students of medicine and biology. About 25 courses (lectures, seminars, colloquia, internships and courses for first-year, advanced and post-graduate students) are held.

Institute directors

Others

The Institute for Tropical Medicine is part of the Comprehensive Infectious Disease Center (CIDiC) at the University Hospital Tübingen and a location of the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF). In 2007, the institute was named "Competence Center for Tropical Medicine in Baden-Württemberg" under the direction of Carsten Köhler.

Partner facilities of the Institute for Tropical Medicine are located at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné / Gabon (Center de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL)), in Brazzaville / Congo , in Hanoi / Vietnam , in Cotonou / Benin and in Sokodé / Togo .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PG Kremsner : “Tropical medicine at the University of Tübingen”, Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift , March 2010, Vol. 122, Suppl 1: 1-3. doi: 10.1007 / s00508-010-1324-2 .
  2. ↑ Südwestpresse.Tropeninstitut: Hope for a breakthrough in malaria vaccination. URL: Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swp.de
  3. ↑ Ralf Neumann: Schmarotzerforscher, Laborjournal online: Citation comparison 2009-2013: Parasitology. Retrieved August 11, 2017 .
  4. ↑ http://www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/uktmedia/EINRICHTUNGEN/Kliniken/Medizinische+Klinik/Tropenmedizin/PDF_Archiv/CV+PGK.pdf
  5. ↑ Carsten Köhler as head of the competence center https://www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/de/das-klinikum/mitarbeiter/1838