Our research
Interaction and Synergies within MEDIS - Nine projects are designed to address two main topics through multiple interactions and synergies between Dresden and Zurich.
The two main topics of the IRTG will complement each other and provide fundamental and comprehensive information about both directions of the relationship between metabolic/endocrine and infectious diseases.
Additionally, we are looking forward to create important synergies between different projects. These synergies are described briefly in each project and are based on:
- Leveraging the opportunity to validate - extend findings in several mouse models with different metabolic phenotypes and infectious diseases (Projects 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8)
- Designing common clinical studies that will cover the needs of more than one project (e.g. Projects 5, 7, 8)
- Exploiting the complementary scientific and methodological expertise of each group as well as the thematic affinity of several projects (e.g. Projects 1-6-2 => adrenal gland in focus, 5-7 => gut in focus, 3-8 lipid metabolism in focus, 4-9 systemic factors in focus)