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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…
World Day for Laboratory Animals on April 24
How do bacteria and viruses trigger diseases? How does our immune system counter them? And what new active substances and vaccines can be used to combat dangerous infections? The scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) are investigating these and…
World Day for Laboratory Animals and Alternative Models
The use of animal experiments, for example on mice and other rodents, in drug research is necessary to carry out a risk assessment before a potential drug is tested on humans. This also applies, for example, to the development of new antibiotics, where it must also be…
Günter Hansmeier Krebsstiftung funds doctoral thesis at the HZI
The cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a member of the herpes virus family. After the initial infection, which often occurs asymptomatically or with mild, non-specific symptoms in childhood, the virus remains in the body in an inactive stage. Globally, approximately 70 percent of…