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The German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) honours the virologist Prof. Dr Dr h. c. Ralf Bartenschlager from the Heidelberg University Hospital. The DZIF Prize for Translational Infection

DZIF scientist Dr Janko Sattler, a medical specialist at the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene at the University Hospital Cologne, was awarded the bioMérieux Diagnostics Prize

The INCubator for Antibacterial Therapies in Europe, INCATE, can point to an impressive series of successes on its two-year anniversary. With direct contact to more than 180 start-ups and initiatives

Prof. Marylyn Addo was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on August 25, 2023. She received the honour for her outstanding medical and scientific achievements in

More and more bacterial pathogens are developing resistance. There is an increasing risk that current drugs will no longer be effective against infectious diseases. Scientists around the world are

Prof. Rolf Müller, the Founding and Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) and Professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at Saarland University, has

Affecting hundreds of millions of people, chronic hepatitis B is a widespread global health problem for which there is as yet no cure. In a preclinical study involving the German Center for Infection

Researchers of the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI) and Philipps-Universität Marburg used the "recombinant measles virus" vaccine platform to test vaccine

The Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation's ForTra gGmbH for Research Transfer—the largest medicine-funding foundation in Germany—supports the legally compliant production of new drug candidates for direct

In a multicentre phase 3 trial, researchers at the MHH have demonstrated the efficacy and safety of the drug Bulevirtide, which prevents Hepatitis D viruses from entering the liver.

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