Investigate how host, pathogen, and environmental factors interact to influence infection, disease progression, and resistance, ultimately supporting the development of evidence-based interventions. such as vaccines, new therapeutics, and infection-blocking strategies.
It will strengthen collaboration among the research groups by integrating molecular, clinical, and population-level approaches to infectious disease research.
HPI will bridge laboratory-based discoveries with clinical and public health applications, ensuring that mechanistic insights from PRIME and VBD are translated into transmission control tools, patient care and health policy through CTM and PPS, in alignment with GHTM’s OH and GH missions.
HPI will establish shared data and sample pipelines linking laboratory, vector, and clinical cohorts, supported by infrastructures such as VIASEF, BIOTROP, and the Bioinformatics Hub.
Projects will address host-associated protection mechanisms, immunopathogenesis and disease severity,microbial virulence and drug resistance mechanisms, vector competence, microbiome interactions, and environmental determinants of transmission. Cutting-edge methodology, molecular and cellular biology, omics, spatial modeling, and AI-assisted analysis will be employed to generate joint outputs such as biomarker discovery, molecular signatures for early diagnosis, and candidate molecules for transmission blocking or drug development.
Findings will integrate into CTM-led clinical protocols and PPS-led implementation studies, promoting feasible and equitable disease control solutions, particularly in PALOP and other endemic regions. Joint training programs and advanced methodological workshops will foster capacity building and sustained interdisciplinary collaboration (eg. MulhereSTrop).
Recent Highlights
Plenary Meeting brings the GHTM community together to shape its scientific strategy
GHTM researchers and students discuss the 2025–2029 scientific strategy, research performance and key scientific indicators from 2020 to 2025.
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GHTM’s Galleria mellonella Research Hub participates in the 5th Galleria mellonella Workshop 2026
GHTM researchers showcased the Galleria mellonella Research Hub at an international workshop, fostering scientific exchange and new collaborations.
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