Medical Physiology
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Division of Medical Physiology

Project leaders and Projects

  • Prof Andreas H Diacon (MD, PhD): Antituberculosis drug trials with established and novel antituberculosis medications. Evaluation of novel measurement tools for treatment efficacy. 
  • Dr Sven O Friedrich (PhD): Substudies to evaluate and consolidate novel diagnostic methods for the determination of bacterial load in specimens received from patients suspected to have tuberculosis. Research on assays enabling the estimation of the usefulness of (novel) antibiotics.