Dr. Lina Herhaus has been awarded the Otto Meyerhof Award of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM e.V.) at the 77th Mosbacher Kolloquium of the GBM. The prize, endowed with €5,000 and funded by Boehringer Ingelheim, was presented for the seventh time and recognizes outstanding early-career scientists conducting research in Germany in fields relevant to the GBM within biochemistry and molecular biology. The award commemorates the world-renowned physiologist and biochemist Otto Meyerhof, who worked in Kiel, Berlin, and Heidelberg before being forced to flee Germany in 1938 as a Jewish scientist.

Just in time for today’s World Tuberculosis Day, the new S3 guideline on tuberculosis prevention among newly arrived migrants has gone online at the Association of Scientific Medical Societies (AWMF). Commissioned by the German Respiratory Society (DGP), it was developed under the leadership of the German Central Committee for Tuberculosis Control (DZK) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI). Over the past three years, a team of experts from the fields of public health and individual medicine worked together with affected individuals to improve tuberculosis screening—and thus prevention—in Germany. The guideline was funded by the Innovation Fund of the Joint Federal Committee (G-BA).

The European Academy of Microbiology (EAM) has announced the election of 95 new Fellows to the network. Among the newly elected members is Prof. Susanne Häußler, head of the department “Molecular Bacteriology” at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and at the TWINCORE – Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, a joint institution of the HZI and Hannover Medical School. Häußler studies multidrug-resistant pathogens and chronic, persistent biofilm-associated infections.