Andrea Reis

🌍 Advancing Care for Neglected Tropical Diseases

📅 26 February 2026 | 📍 Campus Virchow Klinikum, Berlin

On 26 February 2026, colleagues from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) will come together for an afternoon dedicated to advancing care for patients affected by neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).

Under the theme “From Discovery to Delivery”, this scientific exchange will connect clinicians, researchers, and global health professionals to explore how collaboration between academia and product development partnerships can translate research into real-world impact.

The program features expert insights on DNDi’s achievements in research and development, updates on sleeping sickness elimination, long-term care for chronic Chagas disease, and recent progress in tungiasis control. 🎓🧪

The event is open to clinicians, researchers, students, and all professionals interested in global health, tropical medicine, and infectious diseases. It will conclude with an informal networking session to foster interdisciplinary exchange and future collaboration. 🤝

Registration is open until 24 February 2026.

Dear colleagues and interested parties!

We cordially invite you to the Tropical Medicine Symposium at the Charité.

Modern tropical medicine not only addresses the classic infectious diseases of warm regions, but also the social determinants of health and the economic aspects of healthcare in middle- and low-income countries. The boundaries between curative and population-based preventive medicine are often fluid. The same applies to the closely related fields of international and global health and migration medicine. The Institute of International Health is located at the intersection of these topics. Here, patient care (returning travelers, migrants), specialized diagnostics, the prevention of vaccine-preventable diseases, and research activities in Berlin and abroad converge. Constantly changing infection patterns and new diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive options shape our daily lives.

We hope this event will provide you with insight into the changing, exciting, and broad field of modern tropical medicine. The speakers will be available for discussion afterward. Continuing education credits have been applied for with the Berlin Medical Association. We look forward to welcoming you to this symposium on May 7, 2025, and look forward to a lively exchange.

Prof. Dr. Beate Kampmann

Prof. Dr. Frank Mockenhaupt