Department of Infection and Immunity
The Department aims to understand the complex mechanisms of infectious and inflammatory disease processes in order to enable new ways to diagnose, prevent or cure human diseases. Such a strategy requires the existence of a highly interdisciplinary research environment with intensive collaboration of basic and clinical immunologists, engineers, biochemists, computational and systems biologists, public health specialists and clinician scientists.
activities
The Department of Infection and Immunity (DII) defines itself as a clinical-translational research center at the crossroads of basic discovery, clinical application, and public health service.
As such, the major focus of DII is on the analysis of complex mechanisms of infectious and inflammatory disease processes. With a multi-disciplinary approach, the research strategy is based on the following elements: experimental discovery, bridging to clinical application and technology development. Major unsolved medical questions in the areas of inflammation (allergy, asthma, autoimmunity), cancer and infectious diseases (HIV) drive DII’s current and future research agenda. The long-term objective of the DII is to develop into a center of complex immune system analysis in order to provide a better understanding of immune-mediated disease pathologies and infectious diseases.
Director of department
The establishment of the Department of Infection and Immunity was concluded in September 2014 with the appointment of Markus Ollert as its inaugural director.
Prof Markus Ollert has long-term expertise in the field of Allergy and Dermatology. Markus Ollert was appointed full professor and faculty member at Odense University Hospital of the University of Southern Denmark in January 2015.
Ollert
- Clinical and Applied Virology
- Experimental and Molecular Immunology
- Immune Endocrine and Epigenetics
- Immuno-Pharmacology and Interactomics
- Infection and Immunotherapy Reseach Group
- Molecular and Translational Allergology
- Nutrition, Microbiome and Immunity
- Proteomics of Cellular Signaling
- Translational & Clinical Immunology
Projects & clinical trials
Featured team members
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Sarah
Alhamouieh PhD Student -
Isabela
Assugeni PhD Student -
Murilo
Bazon Postdoctoral Fellow -
Safiya
Benharrat Laboratory Technician -
Carole
Binsfeld Laboratory Technician -
Dirk
Brenner Group Leader and Deputy Head Research & Strategy, Department of Infection and Immunity -
Theresa-Maria
Böhm PhD Student -
Emilie
Charpentier Laboratory Technician
Scientific publications
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Exploring Fish Parvalbumins through Allergen Names and Gene Identities – 18/10/2024
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Recurrent tick bites induce high IgG1 antibody responses to α-Gal in sensitized and non-sensitized forestry employees in Luxembourg – 14/10/2024
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Chicken meat allergy in children – 25/03/2024
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Fecal IgE Analyses Reveal a Role for Stratifying Peanut-Allergic Patients – 26/07/2024
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Hypoallergene Tiere – 01/05/2024
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Tierallergene – 01/05/2024
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Allergy to α-Gal and age – 01/04/2024
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IgE and anaphylaxis specific to the carbohydrate alpha-gal depend on IL-4 – 21/12/2023
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What diet should pregnant women follow? – 01/04/2024
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Hypoallergenic animals – 01/03/2024
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Job vacancies
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Post-Doctoral Fellow: Gut microbiome and mucosal immunology (JA/PDGMMI0424/MD/DII)
Department of Infection & Immunity – Nutrition, Microbiome & Immunity unit
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Head of Laboratory at Institut Pasteur du Laos (MC/HoL0224/JH/DII)
Department of Infection & Immunity
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Post-Doctoral Fellow in Experimental Systems Immunology (MC/PDESI1024/FH/ALL1)
Department of Infection & Immunity – Allergy & Clinical Immunology Unit
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Postdoctoral fellow in Chronic Inflammation and Respiratory Disease (MC/PDIRD0724/CH/ALL2)
Department of Infection & Immunity – Molecular & Translational Allergology unit