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A highly contagious viral disease, sheeppox spreads rapidly and can affect large portions of a flock in a short time. The disease is particularly dangerous because it can cause very high mortality rates, especially in young animals, and dramatically reduces productivity by damaging wool, meat and milk yields. By extracting DNA from a range of ancient animal remains, an international team of geneticists, historians, virologists, protein chemists and conservators, has been able to uncover more than 3,500 years of history of the sheeppox virus (SPPV). The Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH), a site of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), took part to the study led by University College Dublin (UCD).

08.09.2026

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For its cross-regional collaboration, the DEEP-DV research consortium (“Disrupt – Evade – Exploit: Gene expression and manipulation of the host response in DNA virus infections”) has been awarded the 2026 North German Science Prize. The consortium, jointly headed by Prof. Nicole Fischer (University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)) and Prof. Melanie Brinkmann (Technische Universität Braunschweig and Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI)), is investigating how DNA viruses evade the immune system and remain in the body permanently. Since 2012, the federal states of Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein have used this prize to recognize cooperation projects across a range of disciplines; this year’s award focuses on the life sciences. Three projects were honored, each receiving prize money of 83,333 euros.

04.09.2026

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a rod-shaped, Gram-negative bacterium capable of infecting various parts of the body, including the lungs, skin, and bloodstream. It accounts for approximately 7 per cent of hospital-acquired infections worldwide and is linked to around 559,000 deaths annually. Researchers from the group of Prof. Michael Kolbe at the Centre for Structural System Biology (CSSB), along with collaborators from Research Center Jülich, EMBL Hamburg, DESY and BIOTECH Thailand have uncovered novel virulence mechanisms of phospholipase C from P. aeruginosa. Their findings are published in Protein & Cell and shed new light on how this pathogen evades host defenses and causes severe disease. The CSSB is a common initiative by nine northern German research institutions, including the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig.

03.09.2026

CSSB

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Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest challenges facing modern medicine. A new class of programmable antibiotics known as asobiotics can be used to treat bacterial infections when classical antibiotics fail. A team of researchers from TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, the RESIST Cluster of Excellence and from the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg has now studied, how bacteria adapt to asobiotics. They recently published their finding in Nature Communications. TWINCORE and HIRI are sites of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in cooperation with Hannover Medical School and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, respectively.

31.08.2026

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On 28 August 2026, the Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) celebrated the completion of the structural shell of its new research building at the Berthold-Beitz-Platz campus together with guests from science, politics – including Bettina Martin, Minister for Science of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – and partner institutions. The €38 million project is jointly funded by the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which is contributing €26.5 million, and the federal government.

28.08.2026

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Dennis Rohde, a member of the German Bundestag and Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), visited the Braunschweig campus of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) today. He was accompanied by Braunschweig’s Mayor, Dr. Thorsten Kornblum. The visit focused on discussions with the HZI management and researchers as well as insights into key research and infrastructure areas at the HZI.

26.08.2026

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HZI in the media

international institutions including Trinity College Dublin, the Helmholtz Institute for One Health, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne,

04.09.2026

News Medical

... der TU Braunschweig und Gruppenleitern am Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (HZI).

Wie DNA-Viren dem ...

04.09.2026

Regional Heute

... verfügbaren genomischen Ressourcen erheblich. HIPS ist ein Standort des Helmholtz- Zentrums für Infektionsforschung in Zusammenarbeit ...

04.09.2026

Bochumer-Zeitung

Technische Universität Braunschweig, das HZI – Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung in Braunschweig sowie die Medizinische Hochschule ...

03.09.2026

Regierungsportal M-V

... des Exzellenzclusters RESIST und des Helmholtz-Instituts für RNA-basierte Infektionsforschung (HIRI) in Würzburg haben nun ...

03.09.2026

Bio M

... die präzise Zerspanung großer Bauteile. Das Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung in Braunschweig und die Medizinische Hochschule ...

01.09.2026

Regionalupdate.de

... zunehmen. Mit der Gründung des HIOH im Jahr 2021 als Standort des Braunschweiger Helmholtz-Zentrums für ...

31.08.2026

Management & Krankenhaus

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28.08.2026

Apotheken Umschau

... des neuen Forschungsgebäudes des Helmholtz-Instituts für One Health (HIOH) in Greifswald (Landkreis Vorpommern-Greifswald) gelegt

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28.08.2026

Tagesschau

How Bacteria Develop Resistance to Antisense Antibiotics—and How Future Therapies Can Be Made Less Susceptible to It

28.08.2026

Bionity.COM

Infection Research; the RESIST Cluster of Excellence; and the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg has

27.08.2026

Phys.org

... Arbeiten am Universitätsklinikum Köln und am Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung startet nun die Entwicklung und GMP- ...

26.08.2026

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