© Prof. Dr. med. Andreas C. Hocke/Charité: Spectral confocal fluorescence microscopy of an alveolus in human lung tissue

Research

The doctors and scientists at the clinic see it as their task to use their high level of expertise in the clinic's three clinical core competencies - infectiology, pneumology, respiratory and intensive care medicine - to improve diagnostics and therapy and thus reduce the number of illnesses in the future.

Learn more about the current research projects of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

(Picture on the left: © Prof. Dr. med. Andreas C. Hocke/Charité:
Spectral confocal fluorescence microscopy of an alveolus)

Scientific focus: Pneumonia (lung inflammation)

Copyright: Dr. med. Holger Müller-Redetzky/Charité

Research teams

The experimental research laboratory of the clinic works in several working groups on different issues, for example on innate immunity of the lung and pneumonia, respiratory damage, vaccination strategies, malaria, sepsis, bronchial asthma and pulmonary hypertension.

Molecular Infectiology and Pneumology Leitung: Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Hippenstiel

Immunity in the Lung: Pathogen Sensing and Host Response during Pneumonia Leitung: Prof. Dr. med. Bastian Opitz

Tropical Medicine and International Health Leitung: Dr. med. Thomas Zoller

Molecular Imaging of Immunoregulation Leitung: Prof. Dr. med. Andreas C. Hocke

Infection Immunology and Vaccinology Leitung: Prof. Dr. med. Leif Erik Sander

Community-Acquired Pneumonia and the Innate Immunity of the Lung Leitung: Prof. Dr. med. Norbert Suttorp

Pneumonia and Acute Lung Injury, Ventilator Induced Lung Injury, Asthma Bronchiale, Pulmonary Hypertension Leitung: Prof. Dr. med. Martin Witzenrath

Research cooperations

The clinic has initiated several national research alliances on its main scientific topic of pneumonia, which are funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) or the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Particularly noteworthy is the Collaborative Research Centre TR-84, which has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2010 and until 2022. Here, scientists are working in an interdisciplinary manner on research into the innate immunity of the lung and in particular on research into the mechanisms of pathogen attack and host defence in pneumonia. N. Suttorp is the coordinator of the project.

SFB-TR84 Collaborative Research Centre TR 84 on Congenital Immunity of the Lung

CAPSys Research network for system medicine of ambulatory acquired pneumonia

CAPNetz Competence Network for Ambulantly Acquired Pneumonia

PROGRESS Research network to identify new biomarkers in pneumonia