Veterinarian Dr. Fee Zimmermann collects long-term data on human, animal and environmental health in the African tropics and on her doorstep - in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. She heads a research group at the...
Strengthening our microbiome with a pill so that it can effectively fight diseases? HZI researchers are striving to make this vision of the future a reality.
Every year, the company Clarivate Analytics publishes a list of "Highly Cited Researchers" and honors scientists who have made a particularly significant impact on their fields. In 2024, researchers from the Helmholtz...
Antibacterial drugs are important to treat infections. But increasing bacterial resistance to current drugs — making them ineffective or only partially effective — means that new ones are urgently needed. Building on...
The annual World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (WAAW) is a global campaign to draw attention to the dangers of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It also aims to inform people about behaviors that can reduce the...
Professors Ivo Boneca (Institut Pasteur, Paris), Mark Brönstrup (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig), and Christophe Zimmer (University of Würzburg) have jointly been awarded one of the most...
The Helmholtz Association has appointed internationally respected US-based scientist Martin Keller as its new president. Following a unanimous vote by the Assembly of Members last Wednesday, the Helmholtz Senate...
The Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) is growing: In the past three years, the institute – a site of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in collaboration with Saarland...
Our immune system successfully defends itself against pathogens on a daily basis - often without us realizing it. We notice other encounters with pathogens through cold symptoms, fever or a red, swollen area. Our immune...
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