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Portrait Thomas Pietschmann
Interview
Thomas Pietschmann: “The pandemic shows us how effective cooperative research can be”
A conversation about the direction of research at the HZI with Prof Thomas Pietschmann, who is the head of the "Experimental Virology" department at the HZI and director of the Experimental Virology Institute at the TWINCORE - Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research
06.12.2021
TWINCORE
Luca Cicin-Sain
Interview
Luka Cicin-Sain: Getting a flu shot and the Corona booster: Does it make sense?
The cold season has arrived along with the question of whether a vaccination against influenza makes sense in times of the ongoing pandemic. And when is the right time for the third vaccination, i.e. the booster vaccination against Covid-19?
03.12.2021
HZI Campus
Luca Cicin-Sain
Interview
Luka Cicin-Sain: “The immune response becomes inefficient with age”
In the coronavirus pandemic, older people are particularly at risk from severe courses of COVID-19. However, other infectious diseases also affect them more than younger people. On the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons on 1 October, Prof Luka Cicin-Sain, Head of the Department "Viral Immunology", talks about the ageing of the immune system.
30.09.2021
HZI Campus
Scanning electron microscope image of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Interview
World Tuberculosis Day 2021: New drugs for old bugs
On the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day, Jennifer Herrmann, scientist in the department Microbial Natural Products at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), talks about the epidemiology of the disease and her current research into new active substances against the causative agent of tuberculosis.
23.04.2021
HIPS
Dirk Heinz during his welcoming speech to the Federal Minister of Research, Anja Karliczek
Interview
Dirk Heinz: "The great strengths of the HZI are its solidarity and team spirit"
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the HZI quickly moved into the public spotlight. Scientific Director Prof Dirk Heinz talks about one year of pandemic, the fast establishment of corona research and new challenges
01.03.2021
HZI Campus
Mark Brönstrup and Till Strowig
Interview
“We will not be able to do without conventional antibiotics”
Mark Brönstrup, head of the research group "Chemical Biology", and Till Strowig, head of the research group "Microbial Immune Regulation", talk about the current antibiotics research and how it is related to microbial research.
04.11.2019
HZI Campus

HZI in the media

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hannover.de
Covid-19: Schutz auf Dauer dank Vektorimpfstoff

HZI-Forschende nutzen Mausvirus als Vehikel für das Spikeprotein für eine verbesserte Immunreaktion

30.08.2024
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healthcare-in-europe.com
IBT Lower Saxony: Inkubator für biomedizinische Innovation vergibt über 1,6 Millionen Euro Finanzierung

Kürzlich hat das Leuchtturmprojekt des Landes Niedersachsen seinen neuesten Meilenstein erreicht: Bei der zweiten Portfolio- ...

29.08.2024
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Management & Krankenhaus
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Um Abhilfe gegen die weit verbreitete Infektionskrankheit RSV zu schaffen, tauchen Forschende tief in die ...

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VolkswagenStiftung
Braunschweiger Infektionsforscher laden ein: Jeder kann mitmachen

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Regional Heute
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Mitochondria release segments of DNA that can travel through pores of the nucleus and integrate into a cell's chromosomes. Credit: Martin ...

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Phys.org