Brief info
The Global Health Institute (GHI) is one of the five Institutes of the School of Life Sciences at EPFL. The GHI currently comprises 12 core and 3 co-affiliated groups, which are engaged in different facets of research linked to human health and disease. Our research focuses on basic mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions, symbiosis, innate immunity, antibiotic resistance, gene regulation, epigenetic, protein localization, and toxin delivery. A feature of the GHI is its ability to tackle crucial world health issues by harnessing cutting-edge technologies developed at EPFL and elsewhere. Among these the nanotechnologies, microengineering, bioinformatics and machine learning are proving particularly powerful at providing new insights on human health.