About the Project

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The UdS-HIPS-TANDEM initiative aims to characterize, modulate and model specific microbiota from patient cohorts with regard to their relevance for infection processes. The long-term goal is to lay the foundation for an early and rapid diagnosis of infection processes and their therapeutic influence and to evaluate them in various preclinical models. This will be based on a fundamental microbiological and cell biological understanding of the pro and eukaryotic single cells and cell populations involved, as well as their cellular signals and molecular interactions.

Within the framework of this strategic research alliance between the Saarland University (UdS) and the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), joint research projects in the field of therapeutic modelling and modulation of cellular signals in infections, are facilitated in order to provide targeted support for interdisciplinary cooperation between the top research areas of the university's NanoBioMed and the non-university partner HIPS. To this end, scientists from HIPS and the faculties NT and MI at the Saarbrücken site in particular will be brought together with scientists from clinical medicine and basic medicine at the faculty M in Homburg.

Acknowledgement of the TANDEM project in publications

In case you are able to publish a paper or hold a talk with results that were obtained from a project of the TANDEM initiative, please use the following phrase to acknowledge it:

"This work was supported by the UdS-HIPS TANDEM Initiative"

Projects, Principal Investigators, and Students

Principal investigators: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Daniela Yildiz, Prof. Dr. Volkhard Helms
Student: Ahmad Aljohmani

Principal investigators: Dr. Jennifer Herrmann, Prof. Dr. Jens Rettig
Student: N/A

Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Alexander Titz, Prof. Dr. Markus Bischoff, Prof. Dr. Michael Zemlin
Student: MSc Mario Fares

Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Thomas Vogt, Prof. Dr. Claus-Michael Lehr
Student: Sarah Frisch, Samy Aliyazdi

Principal investigators: S.L. Becker, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Gregor Fuhrmann, Prof. Dr. Alexandra .K. Kiemer, Prof. Dr. Andreas Keller, Prof. Dr. Eckart Meese
Student: Arefeh Kardani, Laura Gröger

Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Markus Meyer, Dr. Jennifer Herrmann
Student: Philip Schippers

Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Dr. Robert Bals, Prof. Dr. Sören Becker, Prof. Dr. Andreas Keller, Prof. Dr. Frank Lammert, Prof. Dr. Olga Kalinina, Prof. Dr. Andriy Luzhetskyy, Prof. Dr. Rolf Müller
Students: Yiwen Yao, Jacqueline Rehner

Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Frank Schmitz, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jesko Köhnke, Prof. Dr. Markus Bischoff
Student: Swarnali Kundu

Principal investigators: Dr. Eva Schwarz, Prof. Dr. Markus Hoth, Prof. Dr. Rolf Müller
Student: N/A

Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Gabriela Krasteva-Christ, Prof. Dr. Anna K. H. Hirsch, Dr. Martin Empting
Student: Noran Abdel Wadood

Principal Investigators: Prof. Dr. Christian Ducho, Prof. Dr. Dr. Sören Becker
Student: Pierre Junghanns

Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Sigrun Smola, Prof. Dr. Aränzazu del Campo, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Lehr
Student: Markus Vogelgesang

Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Alexandra K. Kiemer, Prof. Dr. Michael Zemlin
Student: Muriel Charlotte Hans

Principal investigators: Dr. Bin Qu, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Franziska Lautenschläger, Prof. Dr. Uli Kazmaier
Student: Galia Magela Montalvo Bereau

Principal Investigators: Prof. Dr. Anna K. H. Hirsch, Prof. Dr. Sören Becker, Prof. Dr. Markus Bischoff
Student: Andreas Klein

Principal investigators: Jun.-Prof. Dr. David Mick, Prof. Dr. Olga V. Kalinina
Student: N/A

Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Andriy Luzhetskyy, Prof. Dr. Adolfo Cavalie
Student: N/A

Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Dr. F. Zufall, Prof. Dr. B. Bufe, Prof. Dr. M. Bischoff, Dr. D.
Krug, Prof. Dr. M. Laschke, Prof. Dr. Michael Menger
Students: Nadine Schmid

Members of the Organisation Team

Prof. Dr. Claus-Michael Lehr

Head of the department “Drug Delivery” at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS)

Coordinator for the campus Saarbrücken

Dr. Brigitta Loretz

Senior scientist at the department “Drug Delivery” at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS)

Assisting coordinator for the campus Saarbrücken

Sarah Müller

Multilingual secretary at the department “Drug Delivery” at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS)

Secretary at the campus Saarbrücken

E-Mail: tandem-sb(at)uni-saarland.de

Prof. Dr. Markus R. Meyer

Head of the department "Experimental and Clinical Toxicology" at the Saarland University

Coordinator for the campus Homburg

Dr. Sascha K. Manier

Research assistant at the department "Experimental and Clinical Toxicology" at the Saarland University

Assisting Coordinator for the campus Homburg

E-Mail: tandem-hom(at)uni-saarland.de