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
The defiance of viruses
Professor Čičin-Šain has identified the key factor that viruses use to paralyse immune defense mechanisms of their hosts Defense cells constantly patrol our tissues to detect pathogens. If they find body cells invaded by a virus, they instruct the i [...]
RESIST team develops a cell model for host-HCV interactions
The RESIST team led by Professor Dr. Thomas Pietschmann at TWINCORE – Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research has improved a liver cell model to investigate the life cycle of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and also the disease developme [...]
New member in RESIST: RESIST-Professor Dr. Marco Galardini
Since 1st of October 2020, Marco Galardini has been appointed to the RESIST funded Professor position for "Systems Biology of Microbial Communities" at Hannover Medical School (MHH). He heads the research group with the same name at the Institute fo [...]
The defiance of viruses
Professor Čičin-Šain has identified the key factor that viruses use to paralyse immune defense mechanisms of their hosts Defense cells constantly patrol our tissues to detect pathogens. If they find body cells invaded by a virus, they instruct the i [...]
RESIST team develops a cell model for host-HCV interactions
The RESIST team led by Professor Dr. Thomas Pietschmann at TWINCORE – Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research has improved a liver cell model to investigate the life cycle of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and also the disease developme [...]
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 [...]
