News 2025
16.06.2025
Sustainable Management of OMICS Data – Moving Forward Together in Research Data Management in Northern Germany
On 5th June 2025, the Research Centre Borstel became a hub for OMICS expertise: from genomics to proteomics to lipidomics, more than 30 participants from Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Rostock, Gießen, Gent, and Heidelberg gathered to address the growing data volumes from modern sequencing technologies.
06.06.2025
Start of study: First participants enrolled in detecTb study
The first two participants in the new detecTb study at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) were enrolled this week. The study is a joint cooperation project between the Clinical Infectious Disease Research Group of the Leibniz Lung Centre Borstel and the I Medical Clinic and Polyclinic of the UKE at the Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems site of the German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF). The project is being managed by Margarita Abasheeva, a medical student at the University of Hamburg as part of her medical doctorate.
02.06.2025
Update Allergologie: Interdisziplinärer Austausch im Herrenhaus des Forschungszentrums Borstel
Bereits zum 37. Mal trafen sich führende Expertinnen und Experten im Rahmen des renommierten „Allergie-Kolloquiums“ am Forschungszentrum Borstel, Leibniz Lungenzentrum, um sich über die aktuellen Erkenntnisse und Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Allergologie auszutauschen. Ein Highlight der Veranstaltung war auch in diesem Jahr die Verleihung des Kanert-Preises für Allergieforschung.
03.06.2025
Stool4TB celebrates breakthroughs in tuberculosis diagnostics
Stool4TB research consortium convened last week in Mbabane for its final annual meeting, celebrating a major milestone in its mission to revolutionize tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics. The event marked the successful completion of a multi-country study aimed at improving TB detection among children and people living with HIV using a non-invasive, stool-based qPCR test