Karolinska Institutet (KI): Infection biology research includes bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites and tackles existing and emerging threats like pandemics, antimicrobial resistance, and highly virulent microbes lacking effective treatments and vaccines. The KI Infection Biology Network, steered by a management board, chaired by Professor Birgitta Henriques-Normark, consists of researchers studying basic and clinical infection biology at KI, the Karolinska University Hospital, and the Public Health Agency of Sweden. The research directions and activities of the KI network, both nationally and internationally, are in line with the 2030 One KI for Sustainable Development Strategy to contribute to global health for all. KI offers doctoral training through Graduate Education Programs, such as Biology of Infection and Global Health (BIGH), which operates across the KI campuses and Stockholm hospitals. The BIGH program covers basic and clinical sciences and is managed by a board representing the KI nodes and the Karolinska University Hospital. BIGH offers graduate courses like Clinical and Molecular Bacteriology, Human Viral Diseases: Mechanisms and Pathogenesis, Vaccine to Vaccination: from Science to Society, and specialized courses like Improving Use of Medicine, Focusing on Antibiotics. The programme also supports workshops, seminar series, a yearly Graduate Education Retreat, and a student-driven annual retreat where students present their research. Currently, the programme has ~130 graduate students and a large faculty of teachers, enabling in-depth graduate education in infection biology. BIGH interacts with AIMES (Center for the Advancement of Medical and Engineering Sciences) at KI and KTH, which has hosted a joint summer research school on Nanomedicine Applied in Infection, Inflammation, and Immunology. Several teachers within BIGH are engaged in international graduate education efforts.

Stockholm University (SU): Department of Molecular Biosciences has a strong research profile area of infection- and immunobiology, entailing microbial pathogenesis, host response, molecular and chemical biology, tuberculosis, sepsis and meningitis, parasites, innate immunity, and alternative therapies for bacterial and fungal infections. SU hosts state-of-the-art imaging equipment, cell analysis facility and soon an animal facility with in vivo imaging and 2-photon microscopy.

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH): Department of Applied Physics, led by Professor Jerker Widengren, focuses on ultrasensitive and ultrahigh resolution fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging, with the possibility to detect, identify and characterize biomolecules and biomolecular interactions at a single molecule level giving visions in diagnostics, screening methodologies, and conformational studies of biomolecules.