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World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2024: Educate. Advocate. Act now.
The annual World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (WAAW) is a global campaign to draw attention to the dangers of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It also aims to inform people about behaviors that can reduce the...
18.11.2024
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ERC Synergy Grant: German-French Team Receives Eleven Million Euros for AI-assisted Search for New Antibiotics
Professors Ivo Boneca (Institut Pasteur, Paris), Mark Brönstrup (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig), and Christophe Zimmer (University of Würzburg) have jointly been awarded one of the most...
05.11.2024
[Translate to English:] Dr Martin Keller.
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Martin Keller Elected New President of the Helmholtz Association
The Helmholtz Association has appointed internationally respected US-based scientist Martin Keller as its new president. Following a unanimous vote by the Assembly of Members last Wednesday, the Helmholtz Senate...
30.10.2024
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What the future of drug research in Saarland looks like
The Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) is growing: In the past three years, the institute – a site of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in collaboration with Saarland...
29.10.2024
Julia Demann and Kathrin Delarosa
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HZI Podcast: Our immune system competing against diseases
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

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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Angela Ittel, Josef Penninger, Frank Eggert
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Honorary professorship for Josef Penninger
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
Gut bacterium Escherichia coli
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Chemical trick activates antibiotic directly at the pathogen
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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Scientists sound the alarm over lack of antibiotics
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