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Drug Discovery within the Patient
The idea of using microorganisms as a source of new active ingredients is not new. Numerous drugs have already been developed on the basis of natural products from bacteria and fungi. These compete for available resources in their natural habitat, such as the soil, and…
Four new junior research groups at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
The ability to react to changes, to survive in existing habitats and to colonize new ones is a prerequisite for prevailing in the course of evolution. These principles of resilience and adaptability, especially in microorganisms, are at the heart of the HZI project…
Scientists sound the alarm over lack of antibiotics
At the 29th Annual Meeting of the Paul Ehrlich Society, researchers, clinicians and representatives of the pharmaceutical industry are therefore making an urgent appeal to the German government to develop economic regulations to enable the development and…
Chemical trick activates antibiotic directly at the pathogen
“Due to increasing resistance, it is becoming more and more frequent that common and well-tolerated antibiotics no longer work against dangerous bacterial pathogens,” says Prof. Mark Brönstrup, head of the ‘Chemical Biology’ department at the HZI and a scientist in the…
Sounds and Science - Music and Infections
Sounds and Science - Vienna meets Braunschweig The event is based on the successful “Sounds and Science” concert series, which was launched in 2014 with the participation of the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. “With the ‘Sounds and Science - Music and…
