News 2025

15.05.2025
Hör- & Gucktipp: Microbe TVMicrobe TV: Interview with Holger Heine
Holger Heine, head of the research group “Innate Immunity” was interviewed by the podcast network “MicrobeTV” at the meeting of the “Society for Leukocyte Biology” last year. You can now watch or listen to the episode “Innate immunity to Archaea”!

13.05.2025
Appointment of Professor Stefan Niemann as Directeur d'Études at the EPHE in Paris
Professor Dr Stefan Niemann, a world-renowned expert in tuberculosis epidemiology, has been appointed Directeur d'Études Cumulant (DECU) at the prestigious École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris. This distinguished five-year position, entitled "Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genomics", recognises his outstanding contributions to tuberculosis (TB) research and marks his integration into the Phylopath team at the Natural History Museum in Paris, led by Professor Thierry Wirth.

12.05.2025
Book a Scientist - Speed-Dating mit der Wissenschaft
Es ist wieder soweit! Am 3. Juni 2025 gibt es die Möglichkeit, sich 25 Minuten lang mit einer Expertin oder einem Experten der Leibniz-Gemeinschaftauszutauschen und alles zu fragen, was Sie schon immer zu Ihrem Lieblingsthema wissen wollten.

09.05.2025
Professor Lange confirmed as Secretary General of the UNION
The members of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union) have elected Professor Christoph Lange, Medical Director of the Research Centre Borstel, as its Director for a further two years. The Board of Directors also confirmed him as Secretary General.