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Almost a year ago, RESIST researcher Prof. Pietschmann from the Twincore Institute for Experimental Virology and his team developed a test system that can be used to precisely measure the immune response against the broad spectrum of hepatitis C viruses (HCV). With the help of this test system, it has now been possible to isolate HCV antibodies in a study that attack an unusually large number of viral variants simultaneously - so-called broadly neutralizing antibodies. These antibodies reveal where the virus is particularly sensitive, which is another step on the way to developing a hepatitis C vaccine. The study, in [...]

The RESIST team mourns the loss of Prof. Reinhold E. Schmidt, who died on 23 January 2022 at the age of 70. Prof. Schmidt was Dean of the Hannover Biomedical Research School (HBRS) and for many years Director of the Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at Hannover Medical School (MHH). Prof. Schmidt helped to establish the Cluster of Excellence RESIST and has been a member of the Research Management Board and the Internal Advisory Board from the very beginning. He also conducted research in the RESIST project A2, which revolves around congenital immunodeficiency and whose goal is to [...]

The cover story on women in research in the magazine of the Hannover Medical School (MHH Info) naturally includes RESIST researchers. Prof. Routier - "The polyglot biochemist" - is portrayed as representative of the RESIST female scientists: "Getting a good position in academia is difficult for all researchers, not only in Germany," says Prof. Dr. Françoise Routier, group leader at the MHH Institute of Clinical Biochemistry. "You have to carry out excellent research, be lucky, get political support and work a lot – without the salary outweighing the amount of work." This is likely why many young people would [...]

Prof. Dr. Kay Grünewald from the Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology (HPI) and the Department of Chemistry at the Universität Hamburg is the new scientific director of the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) as of the beginning of 2022. On 3 December 2021, the CSSB Council confirmed the CSSB Directorates election of RESIST researcher Prof. Grünewald for a two-year term. Here you can read the corresponding press release of the CSSB. More information about our research

We wish everybody in RESIST and all the readers of this homepage a Merry Christmas as well as an equally successful and good year 2022. If you like, then read our new newsletter, you can find it here. Enjoy it, your RESIST speaker team. More information about our research

Prof. Dr. Michael Manns, Prof. Dr. Alice McHardy and Prof. Dr. Thomas Werfel are among the most cited scientists in the world. This was the result of the evaluation "Highly Cited Researchers 2021" by the US company Clarivate Analytics. The three RESIST members are listed in the "Cross-Field" category, which includes researchers who have an impact on science beyond their actual field of work. Prof. Manns, as president of the MHH, has an advisory role on the RESIST board, Prof. McHardy, head of the HZI Department of Bioinformatics of Infection Research, and Prof. Werfel, deputy director of the MHH [...]

A team around RESIST researcher Prof. Krey from the University of Lübeck, MHH and CSSB Hamburg has found a possible new starting point for the therapy of diseases triggered by herpes viruses. This can be the case in particular with immunocompromised patients as a result of organ transplants or HIV infections. They have now been able to publish their results in the scientific journal PLOS Biology. The starting point of the research is the icosahedral capsid, a small capsule regularly constructed from viral proteins, in which the DNA genome of the virus is packed for protection against environmental influences. [...]