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Habitat loss, climate change, and globalization create new transmission routes for pathogens. Therefore, the One Health approach considers humans, animals and nature together. Prof. Fabian Leendertz is founding director of the Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) in Greifswald, which links health research, ecology, and prevention to better prepare for future pandemics. In this episode of the HZI podcast “InFact”, Leendertz explains how zoonoses, or diseases that jump from animals to humans, develop, and why protecting the environment is central to this process.

02.07.2025

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A research project at the Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH), a site of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), has been awarded the Undine Award 2025 in the “Habitat” category. The prize was presented in Stuttgart. In the award-winning project, a research team led by Prof. Katharina Schaufler is investigating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the surface water of the Greifswald Bodden. Targeted science communication is also an important part of the project in order to raise public awareness of the issue. Schaufler heads the department “Epidemiology and Ecology of Antimicrobial Resistance” at the HIOH and receives prize money of 20,000 euros and an image film with the Undine Award.

19.06.2025

HIOH

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Researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) have contributed to a study by the Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) that has uncovered a new mechanism of neuron damage in the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis (MS). Until now, it was unclear how inflammation in MS reduces protein degradation and leads to their harmful accumulation in neurons. A combination of new molecular biological, biochemical, and genetic methods enabled the international research team to identify a previously unknown mechanism of impaired protein degradation in inflamed neurons and its key regulator, the immunoproteasome.

18.06.2025

HZI Campus

Electron microscope image of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, illustrating the differences in the size of the bacterial cells.

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Despite being genetically identical, bacteria can vary considerably in shape and size. Whether these variations affect bacterial function has remained an open question. Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) and the Chair of Microbiology of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) have now characterized the functional differences between various forms of the gut bacterium Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron. They demonstrated a link between cell type and metabolic function. These findings offer deeper insights into microbial gut diversity and pave the way for new possibilities in microbiome-based therapies. The study was recently published in the journal Cell Reports.

17.06.2025

HZI Campus

HIRI

Students and lecturers of the NOZGEKA Master program in Malawi

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An efficient global pandemic preparedness and response requires experts who are trained to perform epidemiological studies and infectious disease modelling. The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) leads the consortium NOZGEKA with the aim of establishing a Master of Science in Public Health with a focus on infectious disease epidemiology in Malawi. The University of Münster and Medical Center - University of Freiburg, and University of Livingstonia (UNILIA) and Mzuzu University (MZUNI) in Malawi are collaborators in the consortium.

17.06.2025

HZI Campus

CiiM coordinator Jennifer Debarry presents the CiiM Founders's Award to Michael Manns

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The CiiM Founders' Award was given to Prof. Michael Manns at the fifth meeting of the CiiM Directorate. The award, made from a concrete core and larch wood from the future CiiM building, honors his outstanding commitment to the founding and establishment of the Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine (CiiM). The CiiM is a joint institution of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and Hannover Medical School (MHH).

16.06.2025

CiiM

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Josef Penninger, wissenschaftlicher Geschäftsführer des Helmholtz Zentrums für Infektionsforschung in Braunschweig und Professor für

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EUROPE SAYS

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Livia V. Patrono, one of the senior authors at the Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) in Germany, said in a statement .

The research

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IFL Science

says Livia Patrono, a veterinarian and disease ecologist at Helmholtz Institute for One Health in Greifswald, Germany. In 2012, an infected

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Science News

... Dr. rer. nat. Jakob Wirbel vom Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (Braunschweig). Das Experiment aus Stanford sei ...

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... unseres Immunsystems zu entziehen. Strukturbiologen des Helmholtz-Zentrums für Infektionsforschung (HZI) konnten nun mittels ...

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of our immune system. Structural biologists at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) have now used cryo-electron microscopy to

16.02.2026

Phys.org

Was es mit Mpox – früher Affenpocken genannt – auf sich hat, welche Symptome erkrankte Personen haben und wie man sich anstecken kann.

13.02.2026

Apotheken Umschau

Julia Port, research group leader at Germany's Helmholtz Center for Infection Research.

"Ongoing outbreaks—particularly those driven by

12.02.2026

Medical Xpress

... Livia Patrono, laut einer Mitteilung des beteiligten Helmholtz-Instituts für One Health (HIOH): Denn dadurch ...

12.02.2026

n-tv

... für den Neubau der Klinik für Strahlentherapie Würzburg sowie für das Helmholtz-Institut für RNA-basierte ...

12.02.2026

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