From chemistry to biology to medicine—during the course of his career, Mark Brönstrup repeatedly crossed the boundaries between these disciplines. So it comes as no surprise that today he is head of
For the population geneticist Ulrich Nübel almost everything revolves around gene sequences of bacterial strains. The scientist obtains a lot of information through analysing them: The course of
One of them speaks of “treasures, waiting to be found” while the other focuses on new “compounds”, but both Timo Niedermeyer and Leonard Kaysser mean the same thing and have a mutual goal: As
It all began 20 years ago with Pekin duck breeding in Kirchheim near Heidelberg. At the time, duck was the model of choice for hepatitis B research, which Stephan Urban also used to discover a peptide
The hepatitis C research success story is also his story: Ralf Bartenschlager, a virologist at the Heidelberg Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University, has been researching the hepatitis C virus for
Dr Tanja Schneider has been researching the interactions of bacteria and antibiotics for over ten years. She knows almost all the antibiotic target sites and mechanisms of antibiotic action in detail
“The DZIF particularly stands out as an institution that offers junior researchers a wealth of possibilities to build up their own networks and initiate projects themselves,” says Janne Vehreschild
It happened so incredibly fast that she can still hardly believe it. Until September last year, Marylyn Addo and her family lived in Boston, where the physician and infectologist had successfully
