Many viruses store their hereditary information in ribonucleic acid, RNA for short. Viral RNA is very similar to that of humans. However, the human immune system can differentiate between viral
The DZIF Academy is pleased to open the call for application for the second DZIF Prize for Translational Infection Research. DZIF will award a prize of 5.000 Euro for exceptional translational
There is a ray of hope in the fight against the dangerous MERScoronavirus (MERS-CoV): a single vaccine could potentially be sufficient to effectively fight all known MERS-CoV genetic lineages
Scientists from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) and the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), both DZIF member establishments, have succeeded in identifying a novel bornavirus
Today, a new training programme for clinical infectious disease specialists has started, which is probably the first of its kind in Germany. In Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel, the northernmost partner site of
Scientists from the Research Center Borstel, the German Center for Infection Research, the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases have
In the EU project “EVIDENT”, scientists investigated around 180 patient samples from the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, to elucidate the origin of the epidemic in the individual countries and the
DZIF researchers at the LMU Munich have successfully tested their candidate vaccine against MERScoronavirus in a preclinical trial. Plans for a clinical trial, in which the virus will be tested in
The German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) is growing: three new member establishments will now be supporting the DZIF in its research activities, the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), the
The German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) has been playing a significant role in one of five new African-German research networks. Under the name “TB-Sequel”, the BMBF has been funding research
