News 2025
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.
27.05.2025
Pressemitteilung zum 13. Deutschen Diversity-Tag (DDT25):
Schritt für Schritt gemeinsam zu mehr Vielfalt
Am 27. Mai 2025 setzen wir erneut ein Zeichen für Vielfalt: Zum zweiten Mal beteiligen wir uns am Deutschen Diversity-Tag – eine Initiative, die wir seit der Unterzeichnung der Charta der Vielfalt im Jahr 2020 aktiv unterstützen. Unter dem Motto „Schritt für Schritt gemeinsam zu mehr Vielfalt“ machen wir sichtbar, was uns als Organisation ausmacht: gelebte Diversität.
26.05.2025
Fruitful Collaboration: Outstanding Researchers Honored
The Research Center Borstel (FZB), Leibniz Lung Center, has maintained a close scientific partnership for many years with colleagues from the Republic of Moldova – a country classified by the World Health Organization as having a high incidence of tuberculosis.