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EU funds training network for young researchers
Antimicrobial resistance is a serious global health problem and, at present, there is no collaborative inter-institutional and highly interdisciplinary training network explicitly focused on the discovery and development of novel anti-infective agents. In order to…
Start of HZI’s nationwide antibody study
In this context, the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig is conducting a nationwide project. The MuSPAD project (Multi-local and Serial cross-sectional Prevalence Study on Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in Germany) aims at improving knowledge on…
Protection against the immune system
Even though a virus is currently sweeping the globe, we know that our immune system naturally protects us against most of these disease-causing intruders. Defence cells constantly patrol our tissues, looking for pathogens. Body cells that have been invaded by a virus…
CORESMA provides evidence-based data on measures against coronavirus
The healthcare systems of many countries are not prepared for an outbreak of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig coordinates an international project to collect clinical, epidemiological and immunological data in…
With antibody tests and new active substances against SARS-CoV-2
Federal Minister of Education and Research Karliczek explains: “Research is the key to fighting the coronavirus. One can see that this is true in many different ways when looking at the various studies that have been recently launched at the HZI in Braunschweig with…
Small Protein, Big Impact
"We were surprised that a comparatively small protein can have such a great influence on bacterial gene regulation," says Christoph Schoen, professor at the Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität ( JMU ) Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany.…
Interaction Between Immune System and Brain
In an earlier study, the researchers from Braunschweig already showed that the reaction of the immune system during an illness with an influenza virus can have a long-term negative effect on the brain. “We know that in the case of illness there are signalling systems…
Adding flexibility to CRISPR targets in the genome
“The presence of a suitable PAM remains a barrier for directed gene editing,” says Prof Chase Beisel, head of the HIRI research group “RNA Synthetic Biology”. This has led researchers to mine the existing diversity of Cas nucleases in bacteria and archaea for ones that…
Prime Minister of Lower Saxony Stephan Weil and Minister Björn Thümler visit the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
At the start of the visit, which began in the HZI Forum conference hall, Prof Dirk Heinz, Scientific Director of the HZI, gave an overview of the HZI’s research strategy and the close collaboration with partners in Lower Saxony: “The aim of our research is to decipher…
Presentation of the SonderMTZ®-Award 2021
Systems Biology as basic research is considered an important starting point for a medicine that increasingly relies on individually targeted disease control. The research objective of the award winner Sahamoddin Khailaie is to understand diseases related to the immune…
