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The cover story on women in research in the magazine of the Hannover Medical School (MHH Info) naturally includes RESIST researchers. Prof. Routier - "The polyglot biochemist" - is portrayed as repre [...]

Prof. Dr. Kay Grünewald from the Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology (HPI) and the Department of Chemistry at the Universität Hamburg is the new scientific director of the Centre for Structur [...]

In order to effectively combat the corona pandemic, the German government has set up a scientific expert council to advise it on the basis of current scientific findings on the COVID-19 pandemic and [...]

We wish everybody in RESIST and all the readers of this homepage a Merry Christmas as well as an equally successful and good year 2022. If you like, then read our new newsletter, you can find it here [...]

Prof. Dr. Michael Manns, Prof. Dr. Alice McHardy and Prof. Dr. Thomas Werfel are among the most cited scientists in the world. This was the result of the evaluation "Highly Cited Researchers 2021" by [...]

The third vaccination – is it really necessary to be protected against Corona? Who should get vaccinated? In this interview, Prof. Schulz answers questions about the third vaccination as protection a [...]

A team around RESIST researcher Prof. Krey from the University of Lübeck, MHH and CSSB Hamburg has found a possible new starting point for the therapy of diseases triggered by herpes viruses. This ca [...]

The first students have started the new Master's programme, which was created as part of RESIST and PLRI. The Corona pandemic has made it clear to us: In medicine, it is becoming increasingly importa [...]

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 u [...]

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 f [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 cours [...]

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 [...]

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) ha [...]

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 [...]

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 a [...]

Master's programme at the interface between life sciences, medicine and computer science: Digitalisation is increasing. Hence, it is becoming more and more important in research, diagnostics and ther [...]

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 Instit [...]

Vaccine research: Basis for the development of a mouse model found / Humans are the only natural host of the hepatitis C virus. Mice, in contrast, are not susceptible. “The reasons for this were not [...]

Since November 2020 Dr. Faranaz Atschekzei is now associated with RESIST. She is dedicated to primary immune deficiencies in order to help affected people with individual therapies. She has been succ [...]

Sabrina Schreiner holds the W2 RESIST professorship for virus replication in cellular chromatin at the MHH Institute of Virology since October 2020. She focuses with her research on human adenoviruse [...]

Professor Čičin-Šain has identified the key factor that viruses use to paralyse immune defense mechanisms of their hosts Defense cells constantly patrol our tissues to detect pathogens. If they find [...]

The RESIST team led by Professor Dr. Thomas Pietschmann at TWINCORE – Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research has improved a liver cell model to investigate the life cycle of the hepa [...]

Since 1st of October 2020, Marco Galardini has been appointed to the RESIST funded Professor position for "Systems Biology of Microbial Communities" at Hannover Medical School (MHH). He heads the res [...]

Charles M. Rice awarded the 2020 Nobel Prizein Physiology or Medicine Charles M. Rice, member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Cluster of Excellence RESIST, receives the 2020 Nobel Prize in Ph [...]

RESIST research team comes a step closer to protection against herpes viruses When herpes viruses enter the human host cell, the viral membrane fuses with the cellular membrane. Specific viral protei [...]

"The development of new therapeutic approaches to treat lower respiratory tract infections is urgently needed," says Nico Lachmann. Since September 2020, he holds a professorship for the control of r [...]

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded RESIST researcher Professor Dr. Yang Li with an ERC Starting Grant – a funding of about 1.5 million Euros over a period of five years. The scientist is [...]

RESIST team found out: Alarmins positively influence the development of the intestinal flora and the immune system after birth. Food supplements could prevent severe infections in newborns and long-t [...]

Protection from the beginning: RESIST research team found out that certain T cells expand immediately after birth They play an important role in the recognition of "danger" from invading pathogens an [...]

“I am very pleased to join this community of excellent scientists and physicians and help RESIST now to achieve its goals”, says Michele Proietti, who is professor for Genetics of Immundysregulation [...]

RESIST took part at the virtual career fair "Research in Germany" on July 7th, where numerous international students and postdoctoral researchers interested in doing research in Germany have been loo [...]

“I am very pleased that I can support RESIST now to achieve its goals”, says Chris Lauber, who is since mid-June professor for Computational Virology at MHH. Professor Lauber works at the Institute f [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 " [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

"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 [...]

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 [...]