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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
Zone of inhibition test
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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
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Drug Discovery within the Patient
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

Imprint

Imprint according to the following German regulation: § 5 DDG Publisher Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research) Inhoffenstraße 7 38124 Braunschweig Telefon: 0531 6181-0 Telefax:…

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Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer with Julia Demann
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HZI Podcast: Pathogen Evolution
To prepare us for future pandemics, researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) not only look at the pathogens, but also at how changes in the environment and nature - including those caused by us -...
14.10.2024