Infectious diseases are a major threat to global health with an enormous impact on individual lives and societies. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the research area aims to fill knowledge gaps in infectious medicine to strengthen society's ability to manage these diseases.
Microbial infections are inherently complex in nature, with multiple factors influencing the initiation, progression and severity of disease. The main purpose of this prioritised research area is to address the complexity of infection by aligning clinical research with fundamental preclinical research involving, among other, experts in biology, chemistry and physics.
The prioritised research area builds on a very strong research foundation of groundbreaking discoveries in infection medicine – complemented by newly-established computational capacities in data-driven life sciences. These strengths will be integrated to tackle critical knowledge gaps in infection medicine with a cross-disciplinary approach. The output will benefit research, education and health care.
