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Helmholtz “Research Breakfast“ at the Bundestag
Even though the COVID-19 pandemic has been overcome, in a world with constantly changing ecosystems, driven by climate change, we must prepare for further, perhaps even more dangerous scenarios caused by pathogenic viruses or bacteria. All sectors of society must…
MHH Professor Tobias Welte passed away
Welte was a highly valued partner and colleague to many researchers at the HZI. With the establishment of the research group "Dynamics of Respiratory Infections" (DINF) at the HZI in fall 2022 under the direction of Prof. Hortense Slevogt, he also created a direct link…
Breathing easy thanks to new antibiotics
Pneumonia is not just pneumonia - while most people initially assume a single disease behind this term, clinicians differentiate between community-acquired and nosocomial, i.e. hospital-acquired, cases. These two clinical conditions differ significantly in the bacterial…
Hijacking in the immune system
Up to 90% of the world's population carries HCMV. In people with a normal immune system, the infection is usually subclinical, i.e. it does not cause any pronounced symptoms. However, in immunocompromised patients, such as organ transplant recipients, the infection can…
Fighting Cancer with Salmonella
Disease-causing bacteria can help in the fight against cancer. This may sound a little far-fetched at first, but in future bacteria could form the basis for innovative tumor therapies. Researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig have…
Quick Test to Protect Children from Heart Disease
A streptococcal infection may initially cause nothing more than a relatively harmless sore throat. It can, however, also lead to potentially fatal disease or lifelong disability. The outcome of a primary streptococcal infection depends on the strain of bacteria involved…
Advanced Training for Young Scientists in Lower Saxony
The goal of the Helmholtz International Research School for Infection Biology is training top-notch young scientists for cutting-edge biomedical infection research. A PhD program open to young talented early stage researchers from all over the world is scheduled to…
Iron Rivets in Cellular Building Blocks
The fact that Ferroplasma acidiphilum, a single-celled organism lacking a protective cell wall, is capable of living in sulfuric acid is already extraordinary. But what really makes the microbe unique is its unusual relationship to iron. Researchers in Braunschweig and…
New antibiotic candidates from Braunschweig
A group of antibiotic natural products discovered at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig points out a new mode of action against pathogenic bacteria. Isolated from myxobacteria, the substances prevent an enzym of the pathogens from being…
Biofilms use chemical weapons
Bacteria rarely come as loners; more often they grow in crowds and squat on surfaces where they form a community together. These so-called biofilms develop on any surface that bacteria can attach themselves to. The dilemma we face is that neither disinfectants and…
