Objective The global spreading of infectious diseases has become again a major public health problem within and outside of the European region. High quality research aimed at the identification of critical components of host-pathogen interaction is one prerequisite for future development of new efficient tools for the diagnosis, prevention, therapy and control of infectious diseases. Recently, novel technologies and new methods have become available that can be used to address fundamental processes of infection. This has resulted in higher demands on the training and education of early-stage researchers who now have to master classical as well as novel disciplines to be successful in the future. MIDITRAIN is an integrated PhD program that offers highly interdisciplinary training of the early-stage researcher in all areas of infection biology.Training is provided throughi) cutting-edge research projects focussing on molecular interactions of host and pathogen during infection;ii) comprehensive education and intensive tutoring via special practical courses, lecture series and seminars as well as summer schools covering latest concepts, discoveries and methodological approaches within the field;iii) complementary training designed to acquire all skills required for future independent research and leadership in academic research or industry. The training will take place at the National Centre for Biotechnology (GBF) in Braunschweig (Germany) were a unique environment of specialized research groups will provide a combination of expertise in infection biology, genomic, cell biology, biochemistry, structural biology, microbial pathogenesis and bio informatics. The institution has in addition an extensive technological infrastructure with state-of-the-art platform technologies and core facilities where the students can do laboratory rotations to obtain training and technical support for their thesis projects. Fields of science medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthmedical and health scienceshealth sciencesinfectious diseasesnatural sciencesbiological sciencescell biologymedical and health sciencesbasic medicineimmunologynatural sciencesbiological sciencesmolecular biologystructural biology Keywords Innate immunity Molecular interaction infection processes Programme(s) FP6-MOBILITY - Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006 Topic(s) MOBILITY-1.2 - Marie Curie Host Fellowships - Early stage research training (EST) Call for proposal FP6-2002-MOBILITY-2 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme EIF - Marie Curie actions-Intra-European Fellowships Coordinator GESELLSCHAFT FUER BIOTECHNOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG MBH Address Mascheroder weg 1 Braunschweig Germany See on map EU contribution € 0,00
