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Principal Investigator Mathias Munschauer aims to better understand SARS-CoV-2. He now receives funding of 1.5 million euros for his research project “COVIDecode” from the European Research Council (ERC). Munschauer is the third scientist at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg to be awarded an ERC grant.

10.01.2022

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Silke Tannapfel, former Administrative Director, will leave the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig on 31 December 2021 to take on new professional challenges as Ministerial Director in the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts. Elisabeth Gerndt, authorised signatory and head of the Finance and Controlling Department at the HZI, is taking over the position of acting Administrative Director.

15.12.2021

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The increasing spread of resistant germs means that formerly highly effective antibiotics are often not successful anymore in treating infectious diseases. To counteract this development, the team led by Prof. Anna Hirsch from the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) has developed new drug candidates that are able to render one of the most important hospital germs harmless. The researchers have published their results in the journal Angewandte Chemie.

14.12.2021

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Researchers from the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg and the University of Cambridge have revealed the molecular details of a genetic switch through their work on the 2A protein of cardioviruses. Using a new RNA-binding fold, the 2A protein activates a process called ribosomal frameshifting, which allows the virus to replicate more efficiently. This event represents an essential switch in the life cycle of the virus as well as presenting a viral Achilles' heel that could be targeted by future RNA-based therapies. The new findings have been published in the journal Nature Communications. The HIRI is a joint venture of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig and the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (JMU)

14.12.2021

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Strukturmodel des Spike-Proteins von SARS-CoV-2.

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The rapid expansion of the Omicron variant has taken the international medical and scientific community by surprise. After infection or vaccination against the coronavirus, our bodies produce antibodies that play a key role in protecting us against COVID-19. While early reports indicate that numerous mutations on the virus surface of the Omicron variant may allow the virus to escape this immune recognition, it is unclear if the mutations improve binding to cell surface receptors and thus facilitate the infection.

13.12.2021

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Scientists at the Würzburg-based Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig demonstrate for the first time how ZAP, a protein of the human immune defence system, inhibits the replication mechanism of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and can reduce the viral load by 20-fold. The findings were published today in the journal Nature Communications. They may help develop antiviral agents in the fight against the pandemic.

10.12.2021

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