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From 30 April to 15 July 2021, graduates of a bachelor's programme in bioscience or medicine can apply for the four-semester Master's programme "Biomedical Data Science". This new RESIST-funded course at the interface between life science, medicine and informatics will be open to 20 students and will enable them to become experts in the field of big data analysis. The aim is to learn how to generate and handle large amounts of data. The main emphasis will be on the data from the field of infection biology. The master programme is scheduled to begin on 4 October 2021. The [...]

The Volkswagen Foundation and the state of Lower Saxony are supporting RESIST with one million euros from the "Niedersächsisches Vorab". Four RESIST professors will use the funding for their research. "We are very pleased about the additional substantial support of the four RESIST W2 professors newly appointed in 2020, who enrich, support and complement our research areas with their expertise," says RESIST spokesperson Professor Dr Thomas Schulz. 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 [...]

Healing the body with cells – this is the ambitious goal of RESIST-scientist Professor Dr. Nico Lachmann and Dr. Robert Zweigerdt. With this in mind the scientists of Hannover Medical School (MHH) have initiated a research collaboration and license agreement with the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk A/S, to combine academic knowhow with the translational power of the industry. The overall aim of the endeavor is to use special stem cells for developing advanced therapies to regenerate failing organs and cure diseases, for which no adequate treatment is currently available. The collaboration agreement was supported by the technology transfer agency [...]

Interesting and diverse - these are the topics that the new RESIST professors are researching and which they presented to the interested public on January 15th. The session was transmitted live from MHH lecture Hall R. The President of the MHH Professor Manns and the speaker of the RESIST Professor Schulz welcomed the new professors in front of the lecture hall. The photo shows (from left): Professor Proietti, Professor Ravens, Professor Bosse, Professor Manns, Professor Schulz, Professor Schreiner, Professor Lachmann and Professor Galardini. Unfortunately, Professor Lauber was unable to attend. You can find more information about the professors on [...]

It starts with the question, what bacteria, viruses and fungi are, followed by the cultivation of bacteria and, last but not least, even epidemiological observations using the example of SARS-CoV-2 are considered: A RESIST team involving Dr. Henrike Ahsendorf, PD Dr. Jens Bohne, Carla Seegers and Dr. Annett Ziegler has come up with tasks for schoolchildren for the "B!G B4NG Challenge" online competition in cooperation with the University Hannover (LUH). The challenge around infection biology will be presented at the 11th of January 2021 outside the series as a single task. The tasks are addressed to students from the [...]

RESIST researcher Professor Dr. Rolf Müller receives the most prestigious research funding prize in Germany: the German Research Foundation (DFG) awarded the managing director of the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2021 for his outstanding research achievements. This is the most highly endowed award regularly presented to scientists in Germany: Each year, the DFG awards up to ten prizes each with a prize money of 2.5 million euros. The Leibniz Prizes 2021 will be presented on the 15th of March. The HIPS is a site of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research [...]