Center for Molecular Medicine

Research

Research fields and applications

Molecular Medicine

Molecular Medicine aims at developing novel therapeutics and diagnostics starting from basic research into the molecular cause of disease and employing the most advanced biomedical technologies. Research can be basic, applied or technological; in all cases our research aims at future applications in medicine.
Major disease areas are AIDS and Parkinson's disease. Other interests are gene therapy of cystic fibrosis, cancer, multiple sclerosis and stroke. We envisage small molecule, gene and cell therapy. Although research topics (infectious diseases versus neurosciences) are at first sight unrelated, the approach is highly similar both in concept and with respect to technologies used.
Our concept requires team work and the collaboration of different small expert groups from within and without the division.
Training is extremely important. Our Center coordinates the doctoral program in Molecular and Stem Cell Medicine. Our generic approach attracts highly motivated students for a broad training.  
We stress the importance of ethically correct research behaviour.

 

HIV Research

• HIV integrase
• Cellular co-factors of HIV integrase
• Viral Vector Technology

 

Neurodegenerative Disease Research

• Parkinson's Disease
  • Animal models
  • Cell Biology
  • Functional Genomics
  • Novel Therapeutics
• Neuronal Stem Cell biology
• Non-invasive Imaging
• Gene Therapy