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Combination of vaccines from AstraZeneca and Biontech/Pfizer protects particularly well - even with virus variants The Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) supports a second vaccination with an [...]

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 [...]

How long does the vaccination protection against SARS-CoV-2 last? Are ongoing vaccinations necessary? Prof. Schulz tells us what is currently known about it: Professor Schulz, how long is one protect [...]

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 [...]

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on multidrug-resistant pathogens: How do the hygiene and distance rules introduced due to the pandemic influence the transmission of multidrug-resistant pathogens [...]

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 [...]

Mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus are on everyone's mind these days. Professor Schulz, there are British, South African and Brazilian variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in Germany. How dang [...]

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 [...]

RESIST researchers are not only busy doing research on SARS-CoV-2 at this time, but also explaining it. For example, on 11 January, RESIST speaker Professor Schulz explained facts about mutated varia [...]

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 [...]

RESIST researchers are part of the Network of University Medicine: To better tackle the corona pandemic the German university hospitals have joined forces by establishing the "Network of University M [...]

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 [...]

Simple test developed for detection of protective neutralising antibodies: Infections with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 can take very different courses. While some people have no symptoms, others get s [...]

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 [...]

A team from Hannover Medical School, which also includes RESIST researchers, publishes the first European study of this kind in the Lancet journal "EBioMedicine” / The course of infection with the co [...]

“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 [...]

SARS-CoV-2 has made it very clear to us: As we age, the defense by our immune system against viruses can be very poor sometimes. Unfortunately, also vaccinations show often only weak effects in elder [...]

“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 [...]

Numerous RESIST scientists in the various institutions have expanded their work and are now also focusing on SARS-CoV-2: Professor Dr. Luka Čičin-Šain at the HZI is developing new technologies for im [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]