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The Volkswagen Foundation and the state of Lower Saxony are supporting RESIST - as they did in February 2021 - with one million euros from the "Niedersächsisches Vorab". Four RESIST professors will use the funding for their research. Why do some premature babies die from infections? What roles do infections and intestinal bacteria in early childhood play in lifelong susceptibility to infection? Professor Dr. Sarina Ravens is investigating these questions at the MHH Institute of Immunology. The scientist is focusing on certain white blood cells of the immune system (B and T cells). She is also researching in another RESIST [...]

Hannover and Glasgow plan to conduct more research together and to offer an excellent training environment: Scientists from the Cluster of Excellence RESIST and the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR)  have launched the Hannover-Glasgow Infection Strategy (HAGIS) project. They aim to use their complementary strengths to advance the development of new therapies for infectious diseases – for example, in the areas of viral infections in susceptible individuals and emerging viral infections – and PhD students will benefit from the combined research strengths of the two sites. The Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture is funding [...]

Professor Daniel P. Depledge, PhD, Professor of Systems Biology of Viruses within the German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF) since June 2021 is a new member of RESIST. "The opportunity to expand my research interests and engage in translational research led me to move from New York to Hannover to join the Institute of Virology at Hannover Medical School (MHH). Here I look forward to collaborating closely with many excellent virologists, RNA biologists and immunologists, while continuing to build new collaborations across Europe," says the 40-year-old. Professor Depledge investigates how herpesviruses survive and spread in people's bodies. To do [...]

Certain immune cells develop early in life and remain throughout life Some things are particularly deeply rooted: for example, certain white blood cells of the adult immune system are already formed around the eighth week of pregnancy. These are gamma-delta T cells, more precisely theVγ9Vδ2+ T cells. They can recognise bacterial infections as well as tissue damage and changes, such as cancer, or act as inflammation-enhancing cells in autoimmune diseases. They are found in the blood, but also in the intestine, skin, liver and lungs. Professor Dr. Sarina Ravens and Dr. Alina Fichtner from the Institute of Immunology at [...]

A new mass spectrometer – funded by RESIST and the MHH – speeds up research. "It's a real workhorse: fast and solid". This is how Professor Dr. Andreas Pich describes the new mass spectrometer of the MHH research facility Proteomics: "We can now investigate the cell protein processes much more quickly. This new device is the fifth mass spectrometer in the lab, it can analyse samples about three times as fast as older models and it ideally complements the lab's equipment," explains the Proteomics director. Another advantage: more measuring times are now available for the other mass spectrometers in [...]