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2020-12-01
The Federal Budget Committee has assured the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) funding of 47 million euros for the further expansion of the institute. Together with funds from the state of Saarland, the HIPS will receive a total of 70 million euros until 2025. The additional funds will go towards an extension building and further research groups…
Bacteria of the species Staphylococcus aureus are among the most common pathogens associated with hospital-acquired pneumonia worldwide. Multi-resistant strains of this pathogen have spread worldwide and constitute a major threat for health care, especially in countries with high antibiotic use. Hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia has a high mortality rate of over 20 percent even…
Its metabolism and the structure of its cellular membrane render the hospital germ Pseudomonas aeruginosa resistant against several antibiotics. P. aeruginosa is responsible for around ten percent of all hospital infections, making it one of the most common multi-resistant germs. The Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) now made an important step in the fight against…
2020-11-30
Prof Jörg Vogel is founding director of the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), a site of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) with the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU). His research group “RNA biology of bacterial infections” investigates how RNA molecules regulate processes in pathogens. To this end, the researchers are…
2020-11-18
Organ and stem cell transplants are proven and frequently used methods in everyday modern clinical practice. However, even when performed regularly in specialised centres, some patients still experience a number of serious complications afterwards. Among other things, infections with fungi and viruses can jeopardise therapeutic success. For example, coinfection with cytomegalovirus,…
