Herausforderung
Die Waffen im Kampf gegen Infektionen werden stumpf. Immer mehr Erreger sind gegenüber gängigen Medikamenten unempfindlich. Die Photonik bietet das Potential für echte Durchbrüche in Diagnostik und Therapie.
Build Bridges
Investments in national research infrastructures open to users are necessary prerequisites for accelerating translations.
INNOVATIVE STRUCTURE
As a platform open to users, the LPI provides a unique Europe-wide technology platform with highly-qualified personnel under the aegis of a university hospital.
Kompetenzen bündeln
Das LPI bündelt die Expertise zahlreicher renommierter Akteure aus Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft. Die Translation neuer Diagnose- und Therapieverfahren wird nachhaltig beschleunigt.
Our Mission
Antibiotic-resistant pathogens complicate the treatment of infections. Physicians need new active substances and alternative strategies against which germs cannot develop resistances.
Light is a powerful tool for understanding how microbes make us sick, how our body defends itself and how these processes can be influenced. It measures quickly, sensitively and without contact. Light contributes to understanding the causes of illnesses on a cellular level. Photonic technologies in combination with microfluidics, micro & nanotechnologies, biotechnology and molecular techniques will revolutionise diagnostics and companion diagnostics. Compact devices for fast and conclusive diagnosis of infections and new therapeutic approaches (e.g. with new anti-infective agents) are being researched and developed at the LPI.