On March 12, 2026, the first orientation event for the YOUNG RESIST program took place in a hybrid format. The initiative brings together a total of 95 young RESIST researchers, including doctoral candidates, early-career postdocs, and clinical scientists, with the goal of strengthening networking among early-career researchers in the [...]

Dr. Lennart Riemann (PhD) has been awarded the Infection Biology PhD Prize, supported by RESIST and endowed with €1,000. The prize recognizes his dissertation entitled "Systems Immunology Approaches for Human Immune Profiling in Vaccination and Aging," in which he investigated modern systems immunology methods for analyzing human immune responses. [...]

RESIST Provides the Scientific Foundation for a Potential PSC Therapy The currently incurable liver disease "primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)" affects approximately one in 10,000 people in Germany. Characterized by chronic inflammation of the bile ducts, PSC frequently leads to severe complications, including the need for liver transplantation. To date, [...]

Big data study reveals an association with a molecular state of immune cells How Long COVID develops is still poorly understood. A recent study led by Prof. Yang Li at the Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine (CiiM) now provides new insights into potential molecular mechanisms underlying the condition. Yang [...]