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"...We invite applications for the position of an

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR / ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / PROFESSOR IN EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES

This is a joint position between the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. The research and teaching field of the professorship is microbiology, infectious diseases and vaccines. An emphasis is in the areas, where the problems are shared by human and veterinary medicine. The professorship will be based in the Faculty of Medicine. The areas of strengths of the program relevant to the call include, for example, studies in the pathogenesis of emerging infections, their virulence mechanisms, animal-to-human transmission and its drivers, reasons for host species differences, analysis of evolution of emerging microbes, control and prevention of emerging infections by hygienic measures and vaccines, animal models, new therapeutic measures and battling the increasing resistance to antibiotics. ..."