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"The HZI could be much more self-assured in appearance and manner"
Mrs Tannapfel, how did you become aware of the HZI? Although I grew up in Lower Saxony and spent most of my legal internship in the Hannover/Hildesheim region, I did not become aware of the HZI until 2014, when the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research…
Vaccination with nanoparticles
To be able to vaccinate significantly more people throughout the world, it would be more useful to have vaccines that can be administered in the form of a nasal spray or a cream passing through the skin. They would not only be easier to use, but also have a crucial…
Developing novel strategies against tuberculosis and malaria
The more often antibiotics are used, the higher the probability that pathogens will become resistant to the active substances used. In the case of tuberculosis in particular, such antimicrobial resistance plays an enormously important role, as several active substances…
Margherita Pevere: Immune cells become biological art objects
This art project is part of the EU-funded ENLIGHT-TEN+ network (European Network Linking Informatics and Genomics of Helper T cells in Tissues), which is coordinated by Prof Jochen Hühn and educates 15 young scientists at the interface of immunology and big data…
Berit Lange appointed to the STIKO
A large number of infectious diseases can be prevented or their course significantly weakened by vaccinations. To provide the population with better guidance on which vaccinations are recommended at which time, STIKO is compiling a regularly updated vaccination…
New hope in the fight against RSV
Every year in the winter months, there are waves of infection with RSV. In healthy adults and adolescents, the infection is usually harmless. Not so with small children: Around 1% of them who are exposed to the pathogen for the first time become so seriously ill that…
"Just be creative"
In addition, Schmelz gives lectures for young biologists, biotechnologists and biochemists at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. It is important and satisfying to him to transfer knowledge to young people. He sees his work with bachelor and master students,…
Interview with Dieter Jahn
Professor Jahn, when you accepted an appointment at the Institute for Microbiology in 2000, the HZI was still named German Research Centre for Biotechnology (Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung – GBF). What was the relationship between the TU Braunschweig and…
The gene tinkerer
Since early 2018, the US-American has headed the “RNA Synthetic Biology” research group at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg, a location of the HZI in cooperation with the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. The chemical…
Keeping antibiotics effective in the future
Dr Castell, what is the focus of WASA? Inappropriate treatment with antibiotics is one of the reasons for the development of antibiotic resistance, which has become a global problem. About 85 per cent of antibiotics are prescribed in ambulatory care – and not always…
