In research, translation refers to the implementation of findings from basic research in the clinic or in therapeutic applications.
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Ideally, feasibility should already be considered in the design of basic research. Only translation makes results of basic research practically accessible for people. The slogan “From bench to bedside” describes the aim of translational research.
The overall goal of the DZIF Academy is to close the gap of multidisciplinary training approaches within infection research in order to master the biological complexities associated with infectious
The overall goal of the DZIF Academy is to close the gap of multidisciplinary training approaches within infection research in order to master the biological complexities associated with infectious
Millions of people have contracted Zika and chikungunya virus infections since the outbreaks that have been striking Latin America since 2013. Particularly Zika-related malformations in newborns
The working group of Prof. Jörg Janne Vehreschild in Köln cooperates with the Robert Koch Institute. To pave the way for the upcoming challenges in HIV research, the Translational Platform was founded in 2015. It supports clinical and epidemiological cohort studies in HIV. The platform provides ...
Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS)
The challenge of antibiotic drug development today is the discovery and optimisation of novel bioactive compounds that do not show cross-resistances with clinically applied antibiotics, ideally due to a novel mode of action (MoA) which adresses unexploited microbial targets. In the case of ...
Jörg Janne Vehreschild started his professional career as a programmer. However, he soon decided to pursue his second passion and began his medical studies a year later. Today, at only 39, Vehreschild
Christina Zielinski always wanted to become a doctor, but then research got hold of her, or, more precisely, human T cells did. Christina Zielinski has been focusing on these major players in the
From chemistry to biology to medicine—during the course of his career, Mark Brönstrup repeatedly crossed the boundaries between these disciplines. So it comes as no surprise that today he is head of
One of them speaks of “treasures, waiting to be found” while the other focuses on new “compounds”, but both Timo Niedermeyer and Leonard Kaysser mean the same thing and have a mutual goal: As
It all began 20 years ago with Pekin duck breeding in Kirchheim near Heidelberg. At the time, duck was the model of choice for hepatitis B research, which Stephan Urban also used to discover a peptide
