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RESIST research is the current cover story of MHHinfo. It provides an overview, illustrates research on specific diseases using patient examples, explains the cohorts for conducting clinical studies and reports on initial RESIST publications. In this way, readers can find out what the RESIST team uses all its knowledge and skills for: For the patients. We hope you enjoy reading this issue. You can find the digital edition here. If you would like to receive printed copies please send an e-mail to bandel.bettina@mh-hannover.de, thank you! More information about our research

How many people in Germany have a congenital immunodeficiency that makes them particularly susceptible to infectious diseases? And which of the approximately 200 known forms of immunodeficiencies do they have? In order to be able to answer such questions, data on patients have been collected since 2009 in the German National Register for Primary Immunodeficiencies (PID-NET). Professor Dr. Bodo Grimbacher, Centre for Chronic Immunodeficiency at the University Hospital of Freiburg, and his team have now analysed data of approximately 2,400 patients and published them in the scientific journal "Frontiers in Immunology". The results of this study lay an important [...]

The immune system protects against the formation of biofilms. That was previously believed. In contrast, however, now RESIST researchers led by Professor Dr. Reinhold Förster have discovered that the immune system enhances the formation of biofilms with the help of a new developed mouse model for their research. Biofilms – an important topic in the Cluster of Excellence RESIST – are well-organised bacterial communities that colonise implants (among others), and which are neither affected by the immune system nor by antibiotics. Professor Förster, head of the MHH Institute of Immunology, and his research group have now established the first [...]