Press releases
31.05.11
German and Indian researchers unite to fight diseases
Joint health research: alliance wants to speed up the transfer of research findings to a medical application.
To enable research findings to be used for the treatment of patients more quickly: this is the main aim of an agreement which German and Indian scientists have now concluded in New Delhi. The Helmholtz Association and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) want to set up joint projects which combine basic and clinical research and thus advance the fight against infections and other...
21.04.11
Salmonella utilise multiple modes of infection
Scientists from Braunschweig discover new mechanism that helps invading host cells
Scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany have discovered a new, hitherto unknown mechanism of Salmonella invasion into gut cells: In this entry mode, the bacteria exploit the muscle power of cells to be pulled into the host cell cytoplasm. Thus, the strategies Salmonella use to infect cells are more complex than previously thought. According to...
15.04.11
Krankheitserreger studieren und bekämpfen – gemeinsam und deutschlandweit
Bundesregierung startet Aufbau eines „Deutschen Zentrums für Infektionsforschung“ / HZI ist Partner am Standort Hannover-Braunschweig
Die Expertise führender Wissenschaftler bündeln und gemeinsam neue Strategien gegen Krankheitserreger entwickeln: Das ist der Auftrag des „Deutschen Zentrums für Infektionsforschung“ (DZIF), dessen Gründung und Zusammensetzung das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung heute bekannt gegeben hat. Das deutschlandweite Netzwerk umfasst Partner aus der universitären und der...
31.03.11
A better understanding of the ageing immune system
German Research Network wants to optimize therapies for elder people.
Our society gets older, people live longer. The price we pay: infectious diseases can easier overcome the immune system. Like all organs, the immune system does not function flawlessly in old age. A new collaboration of university and non-university research institutes and two companies is investigating why our immune defence is getting weaker when we become old. The project “GERONTOSHIELD”,...
11.03.11
Full Throttle on the DNA
How the immune system controls itself: HZI scientists clarify the mechanism
Millions of Germans suffer from autoimmune diseases such as rheumatism, diabetes or chronic intestinal inflammation: the body’s defence system raises a false alarm and starts to attack its own body cells. The reasons for such overreactions are diverse and have not been understood completely until now. Therapies can only cure the symptoms. In collaboration with the Charité in Berlin and the...
