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PhD-Programm BIOMEDAS gestartet
In der digitalen Talkrunde waren sich Heike von der Heide (Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur), Dr. Jennifer Debarry (Vorsitzende im BIOMEDAS Strategieausschuss, Koordinatorin des Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine (CiiM)), Prof. Ulrich…
Three ERC Starting Grants awarded to HZI
This year, three of the renowned ERC Starting Grants were awarded to the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI). These grants from the European Research Council (ERC) are specifically designed to help young scientists and researchers make the leap to independent…
Europe’s Largest Initiative Launches to Accelerate Therapy Development for COVID-19 and Future Coronavirus Threats
As a member of the CARE consortium, the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) will contribute its expertise in pharmacology of anti-infective compounds. Its Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics unit (PK/PD unit), that has been initiated by the German Center for…
COVID-19: Immune system derails
Most patients infected with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 show mild or even no symptoms. However, 10 to 20 percent of patients develop pneumonia during the course of COVID-19 disease, some of them with life-threatening consequences. "There is still not very much known…
How many people are now immune to SARS-CoV-2?
The strategies for dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic depend largely on estimation of the actual number of infected people. In addition to the cases tested and confirmed, there is an unknown number of people who have undergone infection with or without mild symptoms and…
Exploring the RNA world of the microbiota
In the human intestine, countless bacteria form a complex community. B. theta is one of the most abundant species there and relatively easy to study in the lab. ”Until now, no fine-grained transcriptome annotation – a map of the entirety of RNA molecules – was…
Representative, nationwide coronavirus antibody study starts in Reutlingen
Mild or even asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections are often not detected and thus make it difficult to estimate the infection rate. While PCR tests are only effective in the acute phase, antibody tests also permit reliable indications of COVID-19 infections that have been…
Leap forward in the fight against antibiotic resistance
"Even when growing together under the same condition individual bacteria can behave very differently," says Prof Jörg Vogel, director of the HIRI and chair of the Institute for Molecular Infection Biology at the Medical Faculty of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in…
Mirror, mirror – New enzyme group converts amino acid into its mirror image
Professor Köhnke, you have discovered a new group of enzymes – does that happen to you often? Köhnke: (laughs) Yes and no! Our research group “Structural Biology of Biosynthetic Enzymes” is always looking for new compounds and reactions. In the course of this, we also…
Biomedical Research strengthened in Saarland through the new Leibniz Campus
Saarland’s Prime Minister, Tobias Hans, who is also responsible for the Department of Higher Education, Science and Technology in the Saarland State Chancellery, extended his congratulations on the success of the initiative: “The Leibniz Science Campus combines the…
