UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM HEIDELBERG

UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM HEIDELBERG

 

 

UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM HEIDELBERG

Im Neuenheimer Feld, 672 – 69120 Heidelberg – Germany

Tel. +49 6221 564071/25 - Fax +49 6221 565536

email: Maria.Haensch@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

University Hospital Heidelberg is a “Centre of Excellence” of the Federation of the Clinical Immunology Society (FOCIS) and devoted to human immunology with special focus on chronic inflammatory disease. Accordingly, there is outstanding expertise in the analysis of the immune response in health and disease. Equipment and instrumentation are state-of-the art and a wide variety of methods are available to study cellular and molecular biology and microbiology as well. Moreover, there are long-standing cooperations between the Laboratory of Immunobiology, where planned the project is located, and the Biofilm-group at the Karlsruher Institute for Technology (KIT) and the BG Trauma Center in Ludwigshafen.

To date, studying the immune defence against bacterial biofilm infection is one of the major topics of the Laboratory of Immunobiology. Accordingly, there is expertise in determining and quantifying biofilm formation, and all methods required are well established.