Project Details
Projekt
iDfellows: Hamburg Clinician Scientist Programme in Infectious Diseases
Applicant
Professor Dr. Ansgar W. Lohse
Subject Area
Clinical Infectiology and Tropical Medicine
Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology
Term
since 2022
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 493624519
Prevention, diagnosis and therapy of infectious diseases represent a major health challenge across the world. The enormous dangers of infections have become most evident in the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, but this is only the tip of the iceberg of a multitude of infectious disease threats. The enormous variability of microbial pathogens makes infections an ever-changing danger. Increasing antibiotic resistance, increasing susceptibility to infections by increasing numbers of patients receiving immunosuppressive and anti-neoplastic therapies, and increasing risks of zoonotic infections by globalized ways of life and a growing world population aggravate and augment the risk for serious infections. To combat these health challenges we need well-trained infectious disease experts. Germany has a particular shortage in infectious disease experts, and to date the area of clinically relevant infectious diseases remains an underdeveloped discipline in German academic medicine. The central objective of the iDfellows programme is to train the future elite of infectious disease experts in academic medicine. This objective is to be accomplished by the following key elements: - Attraction: Providing outstanding training and research conditions that will attract the most gifted and motivated young doctors with a special interest in infectious diseases - Clinical Expertise: A systematic clinical training programme offering a wide range of infectious disease experiences under the tuition of excellent national and international experts in infectious diseases - Scientific Advancement: Top research projects addressing the most pressing questions in infectious diseases research of the present and the future - Mentorship: Mentorship and peer-group training that will guide the young fellows into independent and innovative clinician scientist careers - International Networks: Strengthening international exchange and encouraging training and research periods abroad as part of the career programme These key elements are reflected and translate into five central structural features of the Hamburg iDfellows-programme: 1) Focussed and modular training in diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases 2) Excellent research environment and network of the Hamburg region infectious diseases research institutions 3) Interdisciplinary and international mentoring by clinical, basic science and international infectious diseases experts, and encouragement and support for research periods abroad 4) Sustainability by offering follow-up funding for successful fellows as advanced clinician scientists and faculty 5) Flexibility and support to allow integration of family priorities into the career path
DFG Programme
Research Grants
