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Moonlighting protein makes a hospital germ harmful
In our interview, Wulf Blankenfeldt explains what makes the Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium so dangerous, why he has never lost interest in the function of PqsE for over two decades - and how he was able to report the moonlighting of this protein. Professor…
Three HZI scientists are among the most cited in their research fields
Prof Alice McHardy heads the department “Computational Biology of Infection Research” at BRICS (Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology), a joint facility of the HZI and the Technische Universität Braunschweig. With the help of computational methods, she…
Honorary Doctorate for Dirk Heinz
The Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) , founded in Würzburg in 2017, pursues an innovative approach: It links research on ribonucleic acids (RNA) with infection biology. HIRI is a site of the Braunschweig Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research…
SORMAS is finalist for Zayed Sustainability Prize 2023
The Zayed Sustainability Prize promotes small and medium-sized enterprises as well as nonprofit organizations and schools for sustainable achievements in the categories of health, nutrition, energy, water and secondary schools. The SORMAS open-source digital platform…
Six Teams receive 1.5 Million Euros each for the development of new antiviral agents
Since the COVID 19 pandemic, we know: Viruses are a threat to human health worldwide. Despite the considerable success of vaccines, antiviral drugs are also needed to help sufferers. For many viral diseases there are still no effective drugs or therapeutic treatments.…
Fusobacteria and Cancer
More than 4,500 species of bacteria colonize humans. Although their importance for well-being and health as well as for diseases is increasingly appreciated, the underlying molecular mechanisms are still largely unknown. This also applies to Fusobacteria: They are an…
When the skin aches
It was already known that in both psoriasis and neurodermatitis, T-cells of the immune system migrate from the blood into the skin and drive the inflammation there. Detailed examination of T-cells in blood and skin now led to evidence that in atopic dermatitis they…
GO-Bio initial funding for two natural product projects at the HZI
Basidiomycota produce a wide variety of secondary metabolites, some of which are already used clinically as antibiotics and anticancer drugs, and industrially as dietary supplements. Other secondary metabolites from this division of fungi appear promising for the…
Up to 18 Million Euros for One Health-Region Vorpommern
The One Health-Region Vorpommern shall focus on health in all dimensions of human activity and consider the knock-on effects of all decisions made by politics, agriculture, conservation or tourism on health. In order to attain this goal, individual workshop projects…
SORMAS Foundation established
Before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the open source system SORMAS was already in use in Nigeria and Ghana. Since then, it has been expanded to other countries in Europe, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. SORMAS is currently designed for more than 40 diseases. In Germany,…
