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How holistic approaches can contribute to the fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) On occasion of the World NTD Day 2023 the German Research Platform for Zoonoses, together with GIZ , hosted an online workshop that dealt with One Health approaches to tackle NTDs with an emphasis on vector-borne NTDs. The event highlighted the complexity of the ecology of NTDs, as well as the importance of their environmental components for control and monitoring measures. Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are a major global health burden. They include a list of 20 different diseases that are

The National Research Platform for Zoonoses organised the workshop "Bead-based Array Technologies" in Berlin on 7 November 2011 together with the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). The aim of the event was to present and discuss the current status and the various applications of this technology in the field of zoonotic infectious diseases. More than 50 participants from research, clinic and industry attended the event and discussed the latest research results, which were demonstrated by numerous application examples. Bead-based array technologies as an important tool in zoonoses research The Vice

Exchange and mutual contact are essential The exchange of information and the possibility of direct contact between scientists and the relevant federal institutes and authorities is far more important than simply accessing data from the reporting processes in human and veterinary medicine. This was the conclusion drawn by the participants of the workshop "Electronic Reporting", to which the National Research Platform for Zoonoses invited participants on 1 and 2 July 2010 in Berlin. The event served to take stock of all reporting procedures in human and veterinary medicine and aimed to assess

Every spring, the population is warned by the media of the appearance of ticks. The scientific background of ticks and the pathogens they transmit was highlighted and discussed at the international workshop "Tick-Borne Diseases" on June 21 and 22 in Berlin. Ticks transmit pathogens to humans and animals during their blood meals In order to understand what makes ticks dangerous and why this danger has obviously increased in recent years, basic knowledge about ticks and tick-borne diseases is necessary. Figure 1: Transmission cycle of the Lyme borreliosis pathogen (Source: IMF, modified); German

The organizers and the National Research Platform for Zoonoses as co-organizer were thrilled; almost 140 scientists from all over the world met in Münster from 8th to 9th of March 2012 to learn about the latest developments and potential applications of NGS technologies. The focus was on aspects of public health and clinical microbiology. What seemed unthinkable just two decades ago has now become part of everyday laboratory life. Using ultramodern, fast Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies, genome data of pathogens of various disease outbreaks can be produced within a few days. The

The international workshop "Common cold - SARS - Pandemic Influenza: Novel strategies to fight respiratory viral diseases" took place in Berlin from 12 to 13 October 2009. In cooperation of FluResearchNet and the National Research Platform for Zoonoses, the programme organisers, Prof. Stephan Ludwig and Prof. Oliver Planz, were able to win renowned researchers for the workshop. The keynote was given by Prof. Dr. John Oxford, who introduced the topic with his overview lecture "From 1918 to 2009: Use of human quarantine for studies of influenza". The topics were divided into new target

The European Poxvirus Workshop brought together researchers working in the field of Poxviruses on May 17th 2013 at the Robert Koch-Institute in Berlin. Two keynote lectures were given by experts in the research field of Poxviruses, Clarissa R. Damaso from Rio de Janeiro und Geoffrey L. Smith from Cambridge. The programme was completed by three sessions with 11 talks on the topics Molecular Virus-Host Interactions, Clinics and Pathology of Poxvirus Infections and Immune Responses to Poxvirus Infections. The workshop provided an ideal platform for the 43 participants to exchange their most

The National Research Platform for Zoonoses organised a workshop on 15 June 2010 on so-called "Neglected Diseases". These are infectious diseases that can have particularly serious consequences in regions characterised by poverty. The event was intended to contribute to an intensified exchange between scientists from different disciplines in order to intensify cooperation in the future. The almost 70 participants took this opportunity to deepen the scientific dialogue. Especially the scientists of the emerging zoonotic research networks used the opportunity to plan the next steps of their

As part of its promotion of young scientists, the National Research Platform for Zoonoses offered a summer school for all PhD students working in the field of German zoonoses research. The two parallel sessions "Scientific Writing" and "Presenting Science" were held in Berlin from 16-18 September 2013. A total of 26 young scientists from various German universities, university hospitals and federal research institutions took part. In the "Scientific Writing" session, the preparation, structure and development of a scientific concept and the use of appropriate formulations were discussed