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Ebola
Ebola © Adobe Stock/jaddingt The outbreaks are sudden and severe. The Ebola fever then spreads rapidly throughout the Endemic disease area. The rate of fatality often is higher than 50%, sometimes up to 90%. Currently, there is no specific antidote and no…
Biofilms
Biofilms – living in slime Covered by a thick slimy coating made of biopolymers, the bacteria shield themselves from the immune system and antibiotics. In Germany alone, some 100,000 infections annually are related to biofilms – with clinically relevant…
Information for pupils
Information for Pupils Biotechnological School Lab Braunschweig (BioS) © HZI/Christine Bentz Pupils in the Biotechnological School Lab Braunschweig (BioS) The Biotechnological School Lab Braunschweig has been open to pupils in grades 11 to 13 since spring…
Imprint
Imprint according to the following German regulations: § 6 TDG, § 10 MDStV Publisher Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research) Inhoffenstraße 7 38124 Braunschweig Telefon: 0531 6181-0 Telefax: 0531 6181-2655…
HZI spin-offs at a glance
HZI spin-offs at a glance Scientists at the HZI regularly and successfully transfer their results and technologies into start-ups and spin-offs. Here we present some of the companies. Leopard Biosciences GmbH SORMAS Foundation gGmbH InSCREENeX GmbH MyxoTech…
About HIRI
© Adobe Stock / Christoph Burgstedt Increasing antibiotic resistance, chronic infections and emerging pathogens pose major challenges for the public health system. While the central importance of RNA in regulatory and sensory cell processes has become…
Leendertz: "Human health cannot be viewed in isolation"
Contact between humans and animals is becoming increasingly closer. This is due to the growing world population, the ever deeper intrusion of humans into natural habitats, the hunting of wildlife, and intensive livestock farming and agriculture. Combined with…
New vector vaccine against COVID-19 provides long-term protection
In 2022, researchers from the department “Viral Immunology” headed by Prof. Luka Cicin-Sain at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research reported on the novel vector vaccine for the first time. The promising immunogenic profile of the MCMV-based vaccine has now been…
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis – a silent pandemic © HZI/Manfred Rohde Tuberculosis Tuberculosis is one of the „big three“ infectious diseases, together with AIDS and Malaria. In Europe, tuberculosis is almost forgotten, the times of the “The Lady of the Camellias” and…