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Dr. Milan Gerovac

Dr Milan Gerovac Research Group Leader +49 531 6181 4021 E-Mail Dr. Milan Gerovac studied biochemistry at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. In his PhD thesis with Prof. Robert Tampé at Goethe University, he…

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Our immune system successfully defends itself against pathogens on a daily basis - often without us realizing it. We notice other encounters with pathogens through cold symptoms, fever or a red, swollen area. Our immune...

28.10.2024

Angela Ittel, Josef Penninger, Frank Eggert

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Prof. Josef Penninger, Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, has been appointed honorary professor of the Faculty of Life Sciences at Technische Universität...

22.10.2024

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Colistin is a last-resort antibiotic that is usually only used for severe infections with resistant bacteria. This is due to its severe kidney-damaging side effects, which occur in around 30 percent of treated patients....

21.10.2024

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According to the WHO, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the ten greatest threats to global health. In the EU alone, around 35,000 people die every year from antibiotic-resistant infections. The WHO estimates that...

18.10.2024

Pseudomonas aeruginosa - a biofilm specialist

Antibiotic resistance

Schematic representation of metagenome data

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Microorganisms do not just colonize the body of mammals during infections. Billions of microbes can be found on and in healthy humans and animals at any given time, communicating with each other via chemical signals and...

17.10.2024

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