Hoda Kooshapour, PhD student in the laboratory of Alexander Westermann at the Helmholtz Institute Würzburg (HIRI), has received a Paper of the Month Award from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig.
In the publication “Intramacrophage RIL-seq uncovers an RNA antagonist of the Salmonella virulence-associated small RNA PinT,” Hoda Kooshapour discovered a small RNA that blocks the activity of PinT, a molecule associated with Salmonella virulence. The study was published in Nucleic Acids Research in December 2025.
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Paper of the Month
An internal committee selects one publication per month for the HZI Paper of the Month Award (POM). The award ceremony takes place quarterly following the Friday Lunch Seminar.
