Funding for research project on viral infections and Parkinson's disease
€100,000 from the German Society for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders
Infection research at the interface between clinical practice and basic research
TWINCORE was founded in 2008 by the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and the Hannover Medical School. We combine the expertise of medical professionals and scientists from a wide range of disciplines to find answers to the pressing questions in infection research. Our focus: translational research – the bridge between basic science and clinical application.
Research
We conduct translational infection research to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases in humans. We focus on three areas that characterize our research work. Find out here how we proceed and what results we achieve.
Labs at TWINCORE
Under the leadership of our best scientists, various labs are working on different projects within our research topics.
2025Blood Advances9 (23) : 6076-6089
Identification of 4 autophagy-related genetic variants as risk factors for chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Cabrera-Serrano A, Sánchez-Maldonado J, Rodríguez-Sevilla J, Reyes-Zurita F, Collado R, Puiggros A, Cornejo-Calvo E, García-Martín P, Ter Horst R, Benavente Y, Jerez A, Landi S, Espinet B, Maffei R, López-Nevot M, Ramos-Campoy S, González-Olmedo C, Chen-Liang T, Moreno V, Jannus F, Marcos-Gragera R, Carretero-Fernández M, Sampaio-Marques B, Gámez I, García-Álvarez M, Camp N, Dierssen-Sotos T, Kamaso J, Pérez E, Norman A, Luppi M, Li Y, Alcoceba M, Campa D, de San José S, Marasca R, Ludovico P, Clay-Gilmour A, Canzian F, Ibañez M, Netea M, McKay J, Casabonne D, Berndt S, Slager S, Sainz J
2025Mabs17 (1) : 2465391
Combinatorial Fc modifications for complementary antibody functionality
Bartsch Y, Webb N, Burgess E, Kang J, Lauffenburger D, Julg B
2025Gut Microbes17 (1) : 2487209
Distinct clusters of bacterial and fungal microbiota in end-stage liver cirrhosis correlate with antibiotic treatment, intestinal barrier impairment, and systemic inflammation
Buttler L, Velázquez-Ramírez D, Tiede A, Conradi A, Woltemate S, Geffers R, Bremer B, Spielmann V, Kahlhöfer J, Kraft A, Schlüter D, Wedemeyer H, Cornberg M, Falk C, Vital M, Maasoumy B
Graalmann Lab
Immunology
Indirect effects of immunomodulatory drugs
Immunomodulatory drugs for rheumatic diseases specifically influence immune cells and messenger substances. This project investigates their effect on immune responses in order to find individually suitable therapies.
Pietschmann Lab
Virology
Host and viral factors that govern susceptibility to HCV and RSV
We are investigating why HCV infections sometimes heal spontaneously, but often become chronic, and why RSV infections are severe in some children. We use modern sequencing technologies to analyze the genetic characteristics of hosts and pathogens in order to understand susceptibility.
Galardini Lab
Bacteriology
Genotype to phenotype studies in bacteria
By applying statistical genetics methods to pathogen genome sequences, we aim to identify and validate genetic determinants of phenotypes such as pathogenicity, virulence and antibiotic resistance, e.g. in E. coli and P. aeruginosa.
Galardini Lab
Bacteriology
Pangenome wide prediction of gene function
Thanks to high-throughput sequencing, genome sequences of hundreds of bacterial strains can be analyzed efficiently, revealing differences of up to 60 % in gene content, as in E. coli. With the help of machine learning, we want to better predict the functions of accessory genes and decipher their contribution to survival in specialized niches.
Career at TWINCORE
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