First funding period
In 2008, Septomics - as a faculty-wide research centre of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena - had been successful in the competition “Zentren für Innovationskompetenz: Exzellenz schaffen - Talente sichern” financially granted by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).
Septomics aimed to establish a novel research structure for integrated sepsis research in order to overcome the long-lasting stagnation in the field of sepsis research. To improve the molecular understanding of sepsis, Septomics was to combine basic research and clinical research and provided a translational, complementary and interdisciplinary research approach. This would lay the basis to develop innovative sepsis diagnostic and therapeutic tools.
Image movie
Founding members
Prof. Dr. Michael Bauer | Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivtherapie des Universitätsklinikums Jena |
Prof. Dr. Axel Brakhage | Leibniz-Institut für Naturstoff-Forschung und Infektionsbiologie e.V. - Hans-Knöll-Institut, Jena |
Prof. Dr. Frank Martin Brunkhorst | Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivtherapie des Universitätsklinikums Jena |
Prof. Dr. Uwe Claussen | Institut für Humangenetik und Anthropologie der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
Prof. Dr. Thomas Deufel | Institut für Klinische und Laboratoriumsdiagnostik des Universitätsklinikums Jena |
PD Dr. Reinhard Guthke | Leibniz-Institut für Naturstoff-Forschung und Infektionsbiologie e.V. - Hans-Knöll-Institut, Jena |
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hube | Leibniz-Institut für Naturstoff-Forschung und Infektionsbiologie e.V. - Hans-Knöll-Institut, Jena |
Prof. Dr. Gernot Marx | Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivtherapie des Universitätsklinikums Jena |
PD Dr. Matthias Platzer | Leibniz-Institut für Altersforschung – Fritz-Lipmann-Institut e. V., Jena |
Prof. Dr. Konrad Reinhart | Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivtherapie des Universitätsklinikums Jena |
Prof. Dr. Niels C. Riedemann | Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivtherapie des Universitätsklinikums Jena |
Prof. Dr. Eberhard Straube | Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
Prof. Dr. Peter F. Zipfel | Leibniz-Institut für Naturstoff-Forschung und Infektionsbiologie e.V. - Hans-Knöll-Institut, Jena |
Research groups
During the first funding period two BMBF-funded junior research groups
- NWG Fungal Septomics
Prof. Dr. Oliver Kurzai, ZIK-funding 2009-2014 - NWG Host Septomics
Prof. Dr. Hortense Slevogt, ZIK-funding 2011-2016
and one clinical research group funded by the Free State of Thuringia
- FG Clinical Septomics
Prof. Dr. med. Frank Brunkhorst, ZIK-funding 2009-2013 (today: part of “Zentrum für Klinische Studien”)
were established. A W2 professorship with a tenure track option had been set up for the junior research group leaders. The Clinical Septomics research group was supported by the Paul-Martini-Foundation funding a professorship for clinical septic research.
During the first funding period, ZIK Septomics quickly gained central importance at the research site Jena. Thus, ZIK Septomics has been involved in all successfully granted collaborative research consortia in the field of infection research, i.e. InfectoGnostics, Center for Sepsis Control & Care (CSCC), SFB/Transregio FungiNet, InfectControl 2020, National Reference Center for Invasive Fungal Infections (NRZMyk). Hence, there are close connections between thematically related research projects.
In 2012, the Septomics building on the Beutenberg Campus was opened thanks to the financial support of the Free State of Thuringia. Since then, the building houses the two junior research groups Fungal Septomics and Host Septomics. In this way, FSU, UKJ and HKI are able to interconnect even more closely and to bundle scientific competences.
Committees
Executive board 2009-2014 | |
Prof. Dr. Konrad Reinhart Sprecher |
University Hospital Jena, Clinic for Anasthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine |
Prof. Dr. Axel Brakhage | Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knöll-Insitute |
Prof. Dr. Frank Brunkhorst | ZIK Septomics |
Prof. Dr. Oliver Kurzai | ZIK Septomics |
Prof. Dr. Hortense Slevogt | ZIK Septomics |
Prof. Dr. Eberhard Straube | University Hospital Jena, Institute for Medical Microbiology |
Executive board 2015-2016 | |
Prof. Dr. Oliver Kurzai Sprecher |
ZIK Septomics |
Prof. Dr. Hortense Slevogt stellvertretende. Sprecherin |
ZIK Septomics |
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hube | Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knöll-Insitute |
Prof. Dr. Bettina Löffler | University Hospital Jena, Institute for Medical Microbiology |
Prof. Dr. Konrad Reinhart | University Hospital Jena, Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine |
Scientific advisory board | |
Prof. Scott G. Filler, M.D. | David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA |
Prof. John C. Marshall, M.D. | Critical Care Research at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Kanada |
Prof. Dr. med. Georg Peters | Instituts für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Universitätsklinikum Münster |
Prof. Dr. med. Niels C. Riedemann | InflaRx GmbH, Jena |
Prof. Dr. med. Hans-Dieter Volk | Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
Board of trustees | |
Dr. Klaus Bartholmé | Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
Prof. Dr. Klaus Benndorf | University Hospital Jena |
Elke Jäcksch | Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knöll-Insitute |
Dr. Bernd Ebersold | Thüringer Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Digitale Gesellschaft |