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INCATE and BIOASTER join forces to support innovators in the fight against antibiotic resistance

INCATE, the INCubator for Antibacterial Therapies in Europe, and BIOASTER, the French Technology Research Institute, have announced this week the beginning of a new partnership that aims to improve

Ehrendoktorwürde Prof. Urban
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Outstanding hepatitis research: DZIF Professor receives honorary doctorate

The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Basel has awarded an honorary doctorate to DZIF Professor Dr Stephan Urban from the Medical Faculty at the Heidelberg University. The award acknowledges

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German University Medicine Award goes to DZIF scientists at the UKE

A team of researchers from Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Erlangen and Cologne has been awarded the German University Medicine Prize for curing the so-called "Düsseldorf patient", who suffered from leukaemia

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Call for action by the German Network against Antimicrobial Resistance (DNAMR)

"We are heading towards a crisis with our eyes wide open. Soon we will lack the antibiotics we need to perform vital operations," says Dr Timo Jäger, Managing Director of the German Center for

World AMR Awareness Week from 18 to 24 November: Preventing antimicrobial resistance together

From 18 to 24 November, the “World AMR Awareness Week” (WAAW), a global campaign proclaimed by WHO, aims to draw attention to the near-pandemic rise in infections caused by resistant microbial

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The DZIF mourns the loss of Professor Gerd Sutter

Professor Gerd Sutter has died at the age of 61. His pioneering work on the development of MVA vaccines against measles, MERS-CoV and West Nile virus, among others, had a major impact on modern

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Longevity of HIV-neutralising antibodies explored

Despite decades of research, there is still no vaccine that protects against HIV infection. It is currently assumed, however, that such a vaccine can only be effective if it also produces so-called

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When (new) drugs don’t work: Mozambique faces alarming multidrug-resistant tuberculosis epidemic

With one of the highest tuberculosis (TB) incidences (368 cases/100,000 population) in the African region, Mozambique is particularly affected by the TB epidemic. Drug-resistant TB is also a major

The DZIF Executive Board including its new member. Back row from right to left: Prof. Dirk Busch, Prof. Hans-Georg Kräusslich, Prof. Thomas Pietschmann; front row from right to left: Prof. Andreas Peschel and Prof. Maura Dandri. Front left: Dr Timo Jäger, Managing Director of the DZIF.
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Thomas Pietschmann elected to the Executive Board of the DZIF

Professor Thomas Pietschmann, Scientific Co-Director of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Professor of Experimental Virology at Hannover Medical School (MHH) and virologist at

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A new dawn in the fight against Tuberculosis

Today, UNITE4TB, an international public-private partnership striving to fast-track the development of innovative tuberculosis (TB) treatments, announced the start of its phase-IIb/c-clinical trial