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How do bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi make us sick? How does our immune system defend our body? These are the questions we at the HZI want to answer. Our goal: To set up the basis for new diagnostic tools, new active agents and new therapies against infectious diseases. Together with 150 guest scientists from all over the world, our researchers take on this urging task. With sophisticated laboratory techniques they observe pathogens and immune cells during the moment of infection. They analyse the molecular structure of the “weapons” that pathogen utilise to invade a host cell – and develop methods to defuse them. They seek for substances from the nature and the lab that neutralise pathogens, prevent infections or are even able to cure them. They use high tech analytical devices and study the processes of infections in cell culture, in complex, elaborate computer simulations, and in mice – for a healthier future.
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American biochemist to receive this year's Inhoffen Medal
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Blockade of pathogen's metabolism
In the search for new antibiotics, researchers are taking an unusual approach: They are developing peptides, short chains of protein building blocks that effectively inhibit a key enzyme of bacterial metabolism. Now, scientists at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland ... more
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
As a Helmholtz centre for infectious diseases, the main focus of the GBF research activities is to study microbial virulence factors, host-pathogen interactions, and immunity to develop strategies for the diagnosis, prevention and therapy of human infectious diseases. In addition, the GBF B ... more
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
How do bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi make us sick? How does our immune system defend our body? These are the questions we at the HZI want to answer. Our goal: To set up the basis for new diagnostic tools, new active agents and new therapies against infectious diseases. Together wi ... more
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