Research to help the most vulnerable
The RESIST speaker team: Prof. Dr. Thomas Schulz (in the middle) and the two co-speakers Prof. Dr. Gesine Hansen and Prof. Dr. Reinhold Förster
Some people become only mildly ill when they ’catch’ viral or bacterial infections, whereas others are affected much more severely. But what are the reasons for these differences? And how can the course of a disease be predicted and personalized treatments developed?
These questions are being addressed by the RESIST Cluster of Excellence team. This will enable them to help people with a weakened immune system, including newborn babies, the elderly, people with congenital immunodeficiency, those whose immune system is suppressed for therapeutic reasons, and implant users.
Our research programme is for the weakest. The current threat of the corona pandemic clearly shows how important the goals of our Cluster of Excellence RESIST are. We want to better understand the variable susceptibility of individuals to infections in order to protect vulnerable people as well as possible. In view of the dramatic situation, we in RESIST have started our research on SARS-CoV-2 for several month now.
RESIST – News
Together against the Corona pandemic
RESIST researchers are part of the Network of University Medicine: To better tackle the corona pandemic the German university hospitals have joined forces by establishing the "Network of University Medicine". The Federal Ministry of Education and Re [...]
New in our RESIST team: Dr. Atschekzei
Since November 2020 Dr. Faranaz Atschekzei is now associated with RESIST. She is dedicated to primary immune deficiencies in order to help affected people with individual therapies. She has been successfully researching in the field of immunogenetic [...]
New RESIST-Professor: Sabrina Schreiner
Sabrina Schreiner holds the W2 RESIST professorship for virus replication in cellular chromatin at the MHH Institute of Virology since October 2020. She focuses with her research on human adenoviruses, which cause conjunctivitis, gastrointestinal di [...]
Together against the Corona pandemic
RESIST researchers are part of the Network of University Medicine: To better tackle the corona pandemic the German university hospitals have joined forces by establishing the "Network of University Medicine". The Federal Ministry of Education and Re [...]
New in our RESIST team: Dr. Atschekzei
Since November 2020 Dr. Faranaz Atschekzei is now associated with RESIST. She is dedicated to primary immune deficiencies in order to help affected people with individual therapies. She has been successfully researching in the field of immunogenetic [...]
Upcoming seminars
Every Thursday (except during school holidays) two RESIST scientists or top-class researchers from external institutions present their work at the RESIST seminar series. The dates and titles of the presentations are published on this homepage as soon as they are known. The seminars are taking place [...]
Upcoming seminars
Event Recommendation
“30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Virology”, March 24-26, 2021
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