Workshop and mentoring programme for early career investigators in antibiotic resistance in uro-genital tract infections (NAUGI)

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Florian Wagenlehner
• Subject Area: Reproductive Medicine, Urology
• Term: from 2014 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 269287844

Uro-genital tract infections are diverse and widespread diseases accounting for a majority of antibiotic prescriptions and are thus driving antibiotic resistance. Strategies to prevent further emergence of antibiotic resistance are urgently needed in this field. Uro-genital tract infections are spanning distinct clinical and basic biological disciplines (e.g. urology, andrology, infectious diseases, general medicine, gynecology, pediatrics, microbiology, immunology, pharmacology, anatomy and cell biology). The members of the faculty in this application are highly integrated into several dedicated scientific groups and network societies (e.g. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie, Paul-Ehrlich-Gesellschaft, Deutsches Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, European Section of Infection in Urology of the European Association of Urology, International Society of Chemotherapy, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Andrologie, European Society of Andrology), which ensures a profound professional workshop and mentoring programme. Although research in this field is highly diverse, cutting-edge and frequently translational, young scientists are extremely rare in this field. The clinicians and researchers of this application have thus formed a multidisciplinary, international faculty to apply for a ¿Nachwuchsakademie Antibiotikaresistenz bei UroGenitalen Infektionen (NAUGI)¿ to offer young researchers and clinicians the opportunity to start scientific careers in this field. The programme will be excessively advertised through the profoundly established networks of the members of this application, in order to attract the most excellent young researchers. Up to 20 scholars will be competitively selected, based on their scientific profile and the quality of their research proposals. The scientific background of ¿NAUGI¿ is provided by the faculty in the first part of a workshop, followed by delivering targeted individual mentoring and training, tailored to the needs of the individual research proposals of the applicants. The interdisciplinary faculty of ¿NAUGI¿ will intensively mentor applicant scholars for two years and provide perspectives for interdisciplinary and network research in the field of antibiotic resistance in infections of the uro-genital tract.

• DFG Programme: Workshops for Early Career Investigators