July 9, 2024
Arbeitsgruppen aus der Pharmakologie und der Physiologie der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU) veröffentlichen Studie zur Rechtsherzinsuffizienz.
Read moreJuly 4, 2024
Artificial ventilation can save lives but also strains lung tissue. If the lungs are already damaged, pressure ventilation can have undesirable effects. This primarily affects patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).
Read moreJune 28, 2024
In fall 2022, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) commissioned the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) to coordinate the creation of a national strategy for gene- and cell-based therapies.
Read moreJune 10, 2024
From June 5 to 7, 2024, the 12th Annual Meeting of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) took place at the UGMLC site in Bad Nauheim. The event impressed with a record-breaking attendance of 630 participants and showcased the largest Poster Session in DZL history.
Read moreMay 31, 2024
New therapies for pulmonary hypertension (PH) are the focus of the Giessen Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1213. Around 100 million people worldwide are affected by various forms of PH.
Read moreMay 29, 2024
At this year's American Thoracic Society (ATS) congress in San Diego, Prof Werner Seeger, Chairman of the Board and Spokesman of the DZL, received the prestigious Robert F. Grover Award for his life's work in the field of pulmonary hypertension (PH) research.
Read moreMay 27, 2024
Last-resort antibiotics such as polymyxin are used for bacterial infections when conventional antibiotics fail. However, new research findings show that bacteria have an innate mechanism that protects them from polymyxin.
Read moreMay 3, 2024
DZL scientists Prof Mareike Lehmann and Prof Miguel Alejandre-Alcazar from Justus Liebig University Giessen have received over half a million euros from the German Research Foundation (DFG) to investigate the link between obesity and lung ageing.
Read moreApril 5, 2024
Climate change, environmental pollution and the decline in biodiversity affect our immune system and increase the risk of immune-mediated diseases such as asthma and allergies.
Read moreMarch 27, 2024
The identification of a new molecule has the potential to open new avenues in the diagnosis and treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
Read moreFebruary 27, 2024
The wave of protests against right-wing extremism with demonstrations in many places in Germany has been ongoing for about a month. The trigger was revelations by the investigative center Correctiv about a meeting of radical right-wingers in November.
Read moreFebruary 8, 2024
Life-threatening heart and lung diseases, antibiotic resistance in hospital-acquired pathogens, Parkinson's, and coronaviruses - these are the medical challenges that the current research projects of the Von Behring-Röntgen Foundation are addressing.
Read moreJanuary 12, 2024
An international research team, led by lung researchers from Giessen, has discovered a new repair mechanism with therapeutic potential. The work has now been published in "Nature Communications."
Read moreOctober 10, 2023
Lung cancer is considered the most frequently lethal tumor disease in Western countries. The reasons for this are that lung tumors are often only detected in advanced stages and that conventional therapies have limited effectiveness.
Read moreOctober 5, 2023
DZL scientist Prof. Dr. Soni Savai Pullamsetti and her team have discovered signalling pathways involved in developing right heart failure in patients with pulmonary hypertension. The findings, published in the journal Nature, provide new biomarkers for diagnosis and targets for future therapies.
Read moreOctober 4, 2023
Pneumonia, one of the most common causes of death worldwide, is often due to infection with the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Read moreSeptember 27, 2023
The National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina is Germany's oldest scientific and medical-learned society. DZL researcher Prof. Pullamsetti was admitted to the prestigious Leopoldina.
Read moreSeptember 25, 2023
As pulmonary hypertension progresses, pathological remodeling processes occur in the right ventricle in response to the increased pressure load.
Read moreSeptember 7, 2023
A new building for the Institute for Lung Health (ILH) is being constructed at the DZL site in Gießen, Marburg, Bad Nauheim.
Read moreAugust 30, 2023
Bei den ERS Awards 2023, die im Rahmen des European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress vom 9. -13. September in Mailand verliehen werden, glänzt das DZL mit insgesamt vier beeindruckenden Auszeichnungen.
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