Institute for Infectious Diseases

IFIK Gebäude

The Institute integrates research, education, and diagnostic services over the full spectrum of microbiology, including virology, bacteriology, mycology, parasitology, molecular diagnostics, and infection serology.

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Profile

  • Certified by Swissmedic and accredited for patient care in public hospitals by ISO/IEC 17025 (STS 0363)
  • Host institution for the Swiss Centre for Antibiotic Resistance (anresis.ch) and the Swiss National Reference Centre for Pneumococci, both mandated by the Federal Office of Public Health
  • Fourteen research groups in the fields of antimicrobial resistance, applied biosafety, central nervous system infection, diagnostic innovation, experimental virology, microbial genomics and host-microbiota interaction, experimental microbiomics, mucosal infections, and parasitology
  • Teaching programs for university students of human medicine, dental medicine, pharmacology, biomedical sciences, and biology, and FAMH postgraduate training in Clinical Microbiology

Grants

  • Swiss National Science Foundation: 10002480; 207675; 200382; 205389; 196062, 196644, 197083; 192067; 219372; 179260; 169791; SNF-COST grant 220329; NRP 79 grants 206400; 167066, 192514, Eccellenza 194618;, NCCR Microbiomes, Lead Agency with South Africa 215366
  • Innosuisse: 36198.1 IP-LS; 53709.1 IP-LS, 53709.1 IP-LS
  • BRIDGE Discovery: 40B2-0_203615
  • Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN): Personalized Swiss Sepsis Study
  • Swiss national SARS-CoV-2 genomic and variants surveillance program (FOPH)
  • University of Bern: Bern Center for Precision Medicine: Ma_23; Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases: MCID-MA-03, MCID-MA-11, MCID-MA-23, MCID Project MA_18SNF special call on coronavirus: 31CA30_196062; 31CA30_196644
  • Pierre Mercier Foundation: ObiRisk
  • Diabetes Center Berne & Vontobel Foundation: The FibreGum Study
  • Helmut Horton Foundation: Woundomics