The Jung Foundation for Science and Research awards the 2023 Jung Prize for Medicine to Özlem Türeci

Stefan Rose-John receives a prize for his life’s work and Achmed Mrestani is awarded as young researcher

04-May-2023 - New treatments against cancer, autoimmune diseases, migraine and epilepsy – these are some of the areas covered by the research results of this year’s award winners from the Jung Foundation for Science and Research. With their groundbreaking work, Professor Özlem Türeci, Professor Stefan ...

New sepsis therapy approaches with evolution of signaling molecules

Protein engineering extends immune cell vocabulary

25-Jan-2019 - Small infections can be fatal: Millions of people die each year from sepsis, an overreaction of the immune system. A new immune signaling molecule, designed by a research team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), now provides the basis for potential new approaches in sepsis therapy. The ...

Releasing the brakes on the immune system

19-Oct-2017 - Many tumors possess mechanisms to avoid destruction by the immune system. For instance, they misuse the natural “brakes” in the immune defense mechanism, which normally prevent an excessive immune response. Researchers at the University of Bonn have now been able to take off one of these brakes. ...

New procedure for producing safe and more effective vaccines

08-Nov-2016 - A consortium of four Fraunhofer Institutes (the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI, Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, and the Fraunhofer Institute for ...

Presentation of the 2016 Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigator to Adrian Liston

This year’s research prize awarded by Eppendorf goes to Belgium

08-Jun-2016 - In 2016, Eppendorf AG, the Hamburg life science company is presenting its research prize for the 21st time. The independent Eppendorf Award Jury chaired by Prof. Reinhard Jahn selected Prof. Adrian Liston (Group leader at VIB Translational Immunology Lab, University of Leuven, Belgium) as the ...

Fine-tuning for intestinal immune cells

19-May-2016 - An international team of researchers under the leadership of the LIMES Institute and the excellence cluster ImmunoSensation of the University of Bonn unraveled a new regulatory mechanism how food components and environmental factors influence the immune system. Various substances present in the ...

One lock, many keys

14-Oct-2010 - In order to track down pathogens and render them harmless, the immune system must be able to recognize myriad different foreign substances and react to them. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and the Centre for Biological Signalling Studies BIOSS at the University of ...

The immune system's guard against cancer

09-Apr-2010 - The human body has developed various mechanisms, through which it can protect itself against newly-developing cancer cells. For instance, killer-cells recognize and destroy altered cells in our organs every day. Once tumours have developed, they may be inhibited in growth by messenger substances ...

Nuvo announces co-operative drug development project with Germany's Fraunhofer Institute

03-Sep-2009 - Nuvo Research Inc. announced a co-operative drug development project with the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI in Leipzig, Germany for the preclinical and clinical development of WF10 as a potential treatment for Allergic Rhinitis. The Development Bank of Saxony in ...

The right messenger for a healthy immune response

Researchers from Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Germany, decipher special role of the messenger Beta-interferon for immune responses

21-Jul-2009 - Researchers from the Molecular Immunology group at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany have now shown that Beta-Interferon also plays a crucial role during an immune response: without Beta-Interferon immune cells are unable to show "wanted posters" of ...