“Kill switch” for scavenger cells 20.07.2026 Researchers from Würzburg and Marburg identify a long non-coding RNA as a key regulator of macrophages | Study from the Vogel and Westermann labs published in PNAS
Successful dissertation on CRISPR-Cas 06.07.2026 “RNA & Infection” graduate student Adini Arifah has defended her doctoral thesis
How RSV manipulates the immune response in respiratory cells 22.06.2026 Research project with HIRI participation on gene activity in host cells
Award-winning novel methods in RNA research 17.06.2026 Patrick Bohn received RNA Society Eclipse Award for Innovation in High Throughput Biology
Innovative RNA Therapies: Keeping Drugs Effective 15.06.2026 Insights into Eckernkamp Fellowship Project at the Helmholtz Institute Würzburg
Between the lab bench and the desk 08.06.2026 The new HIRI group leader Camilla Ciolli Mattioli studies how intracellular bacteria interact with their host cells and develops methods to observe these processes…
On the trail of RNA 28.06.2024 An email took Mathias Munschauer from Mannheim to New York, to the lab of one of the world’s most renowned RNA researchers. Today, he is an expert in the field. A portrait on…
What Lies Behind the Research 27.06.2024 An Interview with HIRI Lab and Infrastructure Manager Christiane Albert-Weißenberger
The joy of discovery 20.11.2023 At the HIRI, PhD student Janet Wackenreuter is conducting research on small ribonucleic acids, or small RNAs. However, her insider tip for Würzburg is more philosophical than…
The silent pandemic 17.11.2023 Bacteria often colonize the human body without causing disease — but they can also lead to serious infections.
The chemistry of life 24.10.2023 Lina Günter has been a PhD student at the Helmholtz Institute Würzburg (HIRI) since 2021. As part of the HIRI graduate program “RNA & Infection”, she is researching the…
