Hamburg, ahead of World Malaria Day on 25 April 2026 – Malaria remains widespread, with case numbers recently rising again. The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) has been active in malaria research for decades and collaborates with numerous research groups to improve our understanding of the disease and the malaria parasite. The Data Science Center, founded in 2025, is also contributing to this effort by using new bioinformatic analysis tools and artificial intelligence to analyse large volumes of data and reveal complex relationships. This provides an crucial basis to advance malaria research further.