Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

The department "Regulation in Infection Biology" headed by 2020 Nobel laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier was hived off as an independent research center in May 2018.

[5] Two more research groups where added in 2020, Felix M. Key joined in September and Olivia Majer in October, completing the reorganization of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology.

Simone Reber joined as Max Planck Fellow in 2023 and now heads the research group Quantitative Biology.

The institute also has an International Max Planck Research School for Infectious Diseases and Immunology in Berlin.

[17] The IMPRS-IDI is an English language doctoral program with participating faculty from the Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, the Robert Koch Institute, the German Rheumatism Research Center, and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research.