Exploring the Links Between Ageing, Environmental Stress and Lung Diseases
How do ageing and environmental stress promote chronic inflammatory diseases? Maja Funk, new PI at the Institute of Lung Health and Immunity (LHI) at Helmholtz Munich is getting to the bottom of this question. Together with her team, she investigates…
Disturbed Skin Flora Increases the Risk of Radiodermatitis
Many cancer patients develop severe dermatitis during radiotherapy. Which factors increase the risk of such radiodermatitis has only been partially understood up until now. A pilot study at the University of Augsburg, Helmholtz Munich, and the…
Cross-Country Collaboration: Targeting Resistant Cancers with New Therapeutics
A collaborative research project between scientists from Helmholtz Munich, Goethe University Frankfurt, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, and Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, on “Understanding and Targeting…
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Accelerating Drug Development for Lung Diseases: New Insights from Single-Cell Genomics
To mechanistically understand the root causes of lung disease, and identify drugs that target specific pathways, the scientists around Prof. Herbert Schiller and Dr. Gerald Burgstaller from Helmholtz Munich are collecting deep molecular insights from…
Redefining a Global Problem and an Urgent Need to Decipher the Disease’s Multiple Sub-Types
We urgently need more exchange about our findings from COPD research and clinical practice. But we need to broaden our perspective on the disease just as…
