Here in our news overview you will find all articles from the RESIST online editorial team. Of course we appreciate your interest in our work – and also when you share our news in social media.
Particularly potent antibodies should help against SARS-CoV-2
People who have successfully mastered an infection with SARS-CoV-2 have various protective antibodies in their blood. Some of these substances are particularly effective. Detecting these highly poten [...]
With smallpox vaccination vector against the new Coronavirus
In his search for a suitable vaccine against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, Professor Förster relies on old friends. In cooperation with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), the co-speaker [...]
First RESIST professorships have been appointed
Sarina Ravens and Jens Bosse received their certificates of professorship appointment on 30th April 2020 at the MHH Presidium. Since May, they have obtained the first professorships financed by the C [...]
Searching for drugs against SARS-CoV-2
RESIST-Scientist Professor Pietschmann leads the German part of an international consortium of scientists. This research network is searching for substances that act against SARS-CoV-2 in the world's [...]
RESIST-Research on the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
Many different research projects on SARS-CoV-2 are carried out in the Cluster of Excellence RESIST - always with the aim of protecting and treating people in the best possible way. Professor Schulz g [...]
Answers to questions about the novel coronavirus
Professor Schulz answered numerous questions about the novel coronavirus, together with MHH colleagues. The interview can be found here (on the homepage of the Hanover Medical School). More informat [...]
New in our RESIST team: Dr. Gerold
Dr. Gisa Gerold, Researcher of the TWINCORE – Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research and visiting professor at Umea University in Sweden, is associated with RESIST: Her PhD student L [...]
Five RESIST researchers elected to DFG Review Boards
Five researchers of our Cluster of Excellence RESIST have been elected to the Review Boards of the German Research Foundation (DFG): Professor Dr. Gesine Hansen has been elected to the Review Board " [...]
Genome analysis: new technology established
The RESIST team of Professor Dr. Doris Steinemann and Professor Dr. Thomas Illig (right) is proud of a new large-scale device: the BioNano Saphyr. This technology can be used to investigate genetic c [...]
RESIST on stage
Coffee is good for the liver! This is one of the many interesting messages that RESIST researcher Professor Dr. Markus Cornberg and PD Dr. Benjamin Maasoumy advised the approximately 320 guests who h [...]
RESIST is the cover story
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 [...]
New strategy for vaccines
RESIST scientist Professor Dr. Michael Meyer-Hermann has used computer simulations to investigate how the natural formation of rare antibodies with a special ability is promoted: These so-called broa [...]
Better diagnosis and treatment of immunodeficiencies
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 [...]
Immune system enhances the formation of biofilms
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 [...]
Does eating sweets damage the liver?
What's bad and what ist good for the liver? On January 22, RESIST researcher Professor Dr. Markus Cornberg (left) and his colleague Dr. Benjamin Maasoumy (right) will give a moody lecture on liver he [...]
Seminar with Prof. Prinz and Prof. Viemann
Every third thursday of the month the Cluster of Excellence RESIST ‘Resolving Infection Susceptibility‘ offers a seminar that takes place in the Lecture Hall Q, Building I06, MHH, at 5 pm. On Novemb [...]
First RESIST panel discussion counts around 230 visitors
If the immune system is too weak: RESIST researchers presented what they are working on – and for whom – with a panel discussion at Herrenhausen Palace conference centre on 1st of October. Patients, [...]
Looking back on our first RESIST symposium
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RESIST introduces itself to Hanover
If the immune system is too weak: RESIST researchers are going to present what they are working on – and for whom – with a panel discussion at Herrenhausen Palace conference centre on 1st of October. [...]
Happy about the new homepage of RESIST
"I am very pleased that our Cluster of Excellence RESIST has now its own homepage and I cordially invite you to take a look at it," says RESIST speaker Professor Dr. Thomas Schulz. Click on "About us [...]
Research to help the most vulnerable
Some people become only mildly ill when they ’catch’ viral or bacterial infections, whereas others are affected much more severely. But what are the reasons for these differences? And how can the cour [...]