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Our mission is to train and support the next generation of researchers that will understand, prevent and effectively cure infections and immune-mediated diseases.

Within the framework of UKE’s Academy of Biomedical Health and Sciences (ABHS), the Hamburg School of Infection & Immunity (HSII) offers a two-semester curriculum to support structured MD theses and a three-year curriculum to support PhD theses. Topics cover state-of-the-art knowledge, methods, and research questions in the fields of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation. We bring together the brightest minds of young medical and natural scientists curious to learn about the fascinating complexity of immune surveillance, its challenges by infectious agents, and the plasticity of its adaptive and regulatory responses in health and autoimmunity.

HSII research groups are mostly centered around the brand-new research building N25 at UKE, comprising Campus Research II and Hamburg Center for Translational Immunology (HCTI) , which is dedicated to provide all facilities required to study infection, immunity, and inflammation thereby underlining our strong efforts to promote this area of research as a lighthouse at the UKE. In addition, we are happy to cooperate with groups at University of Hamburg’s Faculty of Biology , and Hamburg’s two Leibniz Research Institutes Leibniz Institute for Virology (LIV) and Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) .

HSII was inaugurated in November 2022, in November 2024 we celebrated the kick-off of the third year of PhD students. 36 PhD students from 10 different countries are currently enrolled in the HSII curriculum. We support and integrate all UKE’s PhD and MD students, irrespective of whether they are financed by DFG-funded grants and programs, or and whether they are enrolled in UKE’s PhD program ABHS , or in University of Hamburg’s faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences (MIN faculty)

Contact & Information

Coordinator HSII: Dr. Cristiana Cicoria, +49 (0) 40 7410 - 54326 , hsii@uke.de