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The prevention and treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections has made great strides in recent years. At the same time, however, new challenges are emerging, for example in connection

The Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) in Ghana is celebrating its 25th anniversary and its successful infection research with a ceremony and a scientific symposium

Dr. Victoria Ingham, a scientist at Heidelberg Medical Faculty and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 million euro for her research on the

Stephan Urban, DZIF professor at Heidelberg University Hospital, receives the Baruch S. Blumberg Prize 2023 from the Hepatitis B Foundation, a global non-profit organisation. The virologist is being

This year‘s Science Award of the German Stifterverband ‚Research with Responsibility‘ goes to Jörg Overmann, Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and

This year again, from November 18 to 24, attention is being drawn worldwide to the threatening increase in resistance to antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents. The World Health Organisation (WHO)

Around 300 million people are living with a chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and currently there is no cure for the disease. A team of researchers around DZIF professor Ulrike Protzer from

As part of her autumn tour, the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, visited the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the German Center for Infection

When you hear about tuberculosis, the first thing that comes to mind is lung disease. However, almost 30 percent of tuberculosis cases in Germany affect extrapulmonary organs. The disease, triggered

Between 10 and 20 million people worldwide are infected with hepatitis D virus (HDV). HDV infection is always associated with hepatitis B virus infection. So far there has been no satisfactory