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31. July 2025

Pettenkofer-Prize 2025

The Pettenkofer Foundation, which is administered by the Foundation Administration of the City of Munich, intends to award a research prize of € 5,000 for outstanding scientific work on the topic of  Modulation of the innate immune system by effector molecules of pathogenic bacteria Up to three outstanding articles published between 2022 and 2025 will […]

24. July 2025

Professor Sebastian Suerbaum re-elected chair of the RKI Scientific Advisory Board

Professor Sebastian Suerbaum re-elected chair of the RKI Scientific Advisory Board On July 18, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Suerbaum was re-elected chair of the RKI Scientific Advisory Board at the constituent meeting of the newly composed board for the 2025-2028 term. The Scientific Advisory Board of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) consists of 16 external scientists […]

4. July 2025

Novel functions controlled by bacterial epigenetics in the stomach pathogen Helicobacter pylori

New Publication in mBio Bacterial epigenetics and novel functions controlled by DNA methylation are an emerging topic in infection research. The research group led by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Suerbaum, with shared first authors Wilhelm Gottschall and Dr. Florent Ailloud, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Christine Josenhans, investigated the function of the conserved methyltransferase M.Hpy99XIX in Helicobacter pylori that […]

18. March 2025

PD Dr. Hanna-Mari Baldauf awarded the GfV’s Gertrude and Werner Henle Medal

PD Dr. Hanna-Mari Baldauf from the Max von Pettenkofer Institute was the first to be awarded the Gertrude and Werner Henle Medal for her multidimensional achievements in research and her voluntary work as co-founder and first speaker of the Young Virologists in German-speaking countries (https://g-f-v.org/jgfv/) at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society of Virology […]