Research Groups

The research groups headed by 102 Principal Investigators cover the entire spectrum of microbiology and immunology in fundamental, clinical and applied research, as basic, environmental and medical microbiology, molecular microbiology, biochemistry, bacterial and viral pathogenesis, infection biology, experimental and clinical immunology, evolution, parasitology, virology and veterinary bacteriology.

Most MIM PIs belong either to the University of Zurich (UZH) or ETH Zurich (ETHZ), but also collaborators from the clinics (University Hospital of Zurich, University Children's Hospital,  Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen) and other research institutions (Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) form a broad pool of participating research groups.