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Future Day at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
The HZI has been supporting the ‘Future Day’ career guidance project since 2002 and, after a long break due to the Corona pandemic, the centre opened its doors again this year to encourage young people to take an interest in science. Initial practical experience is…
Unlocking the world of bacteria
Bacteria populate virtually every habitat on Earth, including within and on our own bodies. Understanding and engineering bacteria can lead to new methods for diagnosing, treating, and preventing infections. Additionally, it presents opportunities to protect crops from…
Innovative vaccine development with heavy ion beams
Most of the vaccines approved for human use either live attenuated or inactivated viruses (e.g. influenza); newer approaches are based on subcellular components of the infectious agents or on the genetic information encoding for these antigens, such as vector or mRNA…
Chemist Prof. Stephan A. Sieber receives Inhoffen Medal 2024
After the discovery of many antibiotics in the mid-20th century to combat multi-resistant bacteria, the number of new compounds has stagnated. Most antibiotics in use today are focused on a small number of cellular targets. This has allowed pathogenic bacteria to…
One Health expedition to the Central African Republic
A delegation of researchers recently traveled to the Central African Republic to strengthen cooperations with local stakeholders in the fields of public health and animal health management. Fabian Leendertz, Katharina Schaufler, Fee Zimmermann, Livia Patrono and…
How members of the microbiome specifically fight salmonella infections
Among other findings, they discovered that bacteria of the Klebsiella oxytoca species in particular exert pressure on salmonella in several ways. Eventually, these findings could one day be used to develop a therapy that takes a completely different approach to the…
State Secretary Judith Pirscher visits the HZI
The MICROSTAR project, with a volume of around 30 million euros, aims to find solutions to the increasing global challenges posed by infectious diseases. Over billions of years of evolution, all organisms have developed a variety of mechanisms to resist difficult…
Groundbreaking for the Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine (CiiM)
"The COVID-19 pandemic has just shown us how important infection research and personalised medicine are - and that research findings need to to be transferred more quickly from bench to bedside," said Lower Saxony's Science Minister Falko Mohrs. "The life sciences are…
Exploring humans, animals and the environment as one
In accordance with a decision made in November 2019, the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research is establishing a new location in Greifswald: the Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH). One Health research investigates the interface between human health, animal…
