TALENTS is a highly competitive doctoral fellowship programme recruiting first stage researchers in the disciplines pharmacy, chemistry, biological sciences, medical sciences and bioinformatics.
The local collaboration of the Saarland University, the University Hospital in Homburg and the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland is aiming get more insight in the human microbiota in health vs disease as base to develop new drugs and therapies. The consortium comprises scientists from different fields, such as medicine, biology, natural products, medicinal chemistry, drug delivery and bioinformatics. Our approaches are to sample and model the microbiota, exploit the microbiota for finding natural producers and modifying the microbiota by specific drugs (e.g. pathoblockers) or treatments (e.g. probiotics).