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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…
Next generation scientists deepen their knowledge of translational medicine and drug production
The ENLIGHT-TEN+ network (European Network Linking Informatics and Genomics of Helper T cells in Tissues) educates 15 young scientists in the field of immunology at academic and non-academic institutions in ten European countries. Prof. Jochen Hühn, head of the…
World Day for Laboratory Animals 2024
The aim of research at the HZI is to develop new and faster diagnostic procedures, new active substances, for example against resistant germs, and new therapies against infectious diseases. The HZI is consistently committed to the so-called 3R principle with the aim of…
