News 2025
06.06.2025
Start of study: First participants enrolled in detecTb study
The first two participants in the new detecTb study at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) were enrolled this week. The study is a joint cooperation project between the Clinical Infectious Disease Research Group of the Leibniz Lung Centre Borstel and the I Medical Clinic and Polyclinic of the UKE at the Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems site of the German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF). The project is being managed by Margarita Abasheeva, a medical student at the University of Hamburg as part of her medical doctorate.
02.06.2025
Update Allergologie: Interdisziplinärer Austausch im Herrenhaus des Forschungszentrums Borstel
Bereits zum 37. Mal trafen sich führende Expertinnen und Experten im Rahmen des renommierten „Allergie-Kolloquiums“ am Forschungszentrum Borstel, Leibniz Lungenzentrum, um sich über die aktuellen Erkenntnisse und Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Allergologie auszutauschen. Ein Highlight der Veranstaltung war auch in diesem Jahr die Verleihung des Kanert-Preises für Allergieforschung.
03.06.2025
Stool4TB celebrates breakthroughs in tuberculosis diagnostics
Stool4TB research consortium convened last week in Mbabane for its final annual meeting, celebrating a major milestone in its mission to revolutionize tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics. The event marked the successful completion of a multi-country study aimed at improving TB detection among children and people living with HIV using a non-invasive, stool-based qPCR test
29.05.2025
11th TBnet Academy: Young researchers from all over Europe meet in Tirana, Albania
From 18 to 21 May 2025, the 11th TBnet Academy took place in Tirana, the capital of Albania. The prestigious event is organised by TBnet (www.tbnet.eu) - one of the largest research networks in the field of tuberculosis (TB) worldwide. The coordinator is Profesor Christoph Lange, Medical Director of the Research Center Borstel (FZB). This year, the Academy brought together 20 promising young researchers from 13 countries, including five participants from Albania.
28.05.2025
‘Tuberculosis research on the run": FZB Team at the ’Run between the seas’.
On Saturday, 24 May 2025, the Research Centre Borstel (FZB) once again took on the sporting challenge of the ‘Run between the Seas’. In the relay race from Husum on the North Sea to Damp on the Baltic Sea, the FZB team covered the 92.2-kilometre route in a total time of 7 hours, 53 minutes and 14 seconds - achieving an outstanding 124th place out of a total of 607 relay teams.