Prof. Dr. Dirk Haller received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medaille 2020 "in recognition of his outstanding, internationally recognized research on the role of nutrition and the microbiome in the pathogenesis of chronic diseases".
Prof. Dr. Dirk Haller received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medaille 2020 "in recognition of his outstanding, internationally recognized research on the role of nutrition and the microbiome in the pathogenesis of chronic diseases".
Professor Dr. Christina Zielinski leads the new department “Infection Immunology” at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute - (Leibniz-HKI) since the beginning of this year and accepted the W3 professorship of the same name at Friedrich Schiller University.
The professor of clinical chemistry is honored for his outstanding scientific work in the field of immunology, as announced by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
A team led by LMU‘s Veit Hornung has shown that a protein found in skin cells recognizes a specific nucleic acid intermediate that is formed during virus replication. This recognition process subsequently induces a potent inflammatory response.
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