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Research Area D

Research Area D: Towards Integrative Therapy Concepts

Central question:

How can discoveries from the other areas be harnessed for innovative microbiome-based diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic strategies?

Aim

Scientists in Research Area D will translate knowledge acquired in sections A, B and C into innovative, microbiome-centered, and personalized strategies of risk stratification, diagnosis, prevention and therapy against antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens (ARBPs). Notably, the resistomes of risk patients will be analyzed by metagenome sequencing of fecal samples and used to implement patient-specific therapies.

Moreover, combined resistome data will be used to adjust general antibiotic stewardship guidelines at the University Hospital Tübingen. In parallel, the commensals, the phages and the host-derived antimicrobial molecules with the capacity to selectively eliminate facultative pathogens from human microbiomes such as those identified in Research Area A, B, and C will be tested as promising agents to prevent infections by ARBPs.

Principal Investigators

Portrait Meral Esen © Meral Esen
Dr. Meral Esen

University Hospital Tübingen
Institute for Tropical Medicine

Meral.Esen@uni-tuebingen.de
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Portrait Reiner Jumpertz-von Schwartzenberg © Reiner Jumpertz-von Schwartzenberg
Prof. Dr. Reiner Jumpertz-von Schwartzenberg

University Hospital Tübingen
Diabetology, Endocrinology, Nephrology

reiner.jumpertz-vs@med.uni-tuebingen.de
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Portrait Peter Kremsner © Friedhelm Albrecht \ University of Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Peter Kremsner

University of Tübingen
Institute for Tropical Medicine, Travel Medicine, Human Parasitology

peter.kremsner@uni-tuebingen.de
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Portrait Benjamin Mordmüller © University of Tübingen/Friedhelm Albrecht
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Mordmüller

University of Tübingen
Institute for Tropical Medicine
Translationale Infectiology and Vaccine Development

benjamin.mordmueller@uni-tuebingen.de
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Portrait Birgit Schittek
Prof. Dr. Birgit Schittek

University Hospital Tübingen
Immunology and Oncology
Molecular Dermatology

birgit.schittek@uni-tuebingen.de


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Prof. Christoph Stein-Thoeringer

Board Member, Coordinator Research Area D

University Hospital Tübingen
Infectious Diseases and Translational Microbiome Sciences

christoph.stein-thoeringer@med.uni-tuebingen.de
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Portrait Urban Wiesing © UKT
Prof. Dr. Dr. Urban Wiesing

University of Tübingen
Institute for Ethics in Sciences and Humanities

urban.wiesing@uni-tuebingen.de
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