News 2025
05.05.2025
Excellence in Research Award for Professor Anna-Maria Mandalakas
Professor Anna Maria Mandalakas will be honoured with the Michael E. DeBakey, M.D. Excellence in Research Award 2025 on June 24. The award is presented annually to faculty members who have made the most significant scientific contribution to clinical or biomedical research at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, Texas, one of the largest biomedical research institutions in the United States, over the past three years.
29.04.2025
Paper of the month: Bedeutende Borsteler Studie über Plasmide bei nicht-tuberkulösen Mykobakterien (NTM) ausgezeichnet
Jeden Monat würdigt die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie (DGHM) eine herausragende Publikation, die von den DGHM-Mitgliedern in den letzten drei Monaten in einem hochrangigen Fachjournal publiziert wurden. Auf diese Weise möchte die wissenschaftliche Fachgesellschaft relevante Forschungsergebnisse einer größeren Öffentlichkeit vorstellen.
16.04.2025
Focus on tuberculosis: Interdisciplinary workshop at the FZB with participants from all over Europe
From 31.3-12.4.2025 the 14-day course “Interdisciplinary training in genomic epidemiology and public health bioinformatics (5th Edition TB)” took place at the Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center.
14.04.2025
Award for the best medical case report of the year. Borstel doctoral student honored at the DGP annual conference in Leipzig
Johanna Eggeling, a doctoral student in the Clinical Infectious Diseases group at the Research Center Borstel, has received the award for the best medical case report at the 2025 annual conference of the German Society of Pneumology (DGP) in Leipzig. The award is given in recognition of an outstanding individual case presentation in the journal Pneumologie that combines medical findings with social relevance.
03.04.2025
New test improves tuberculosis diagnosis in adults living with HIV
A molecular stool test, previously used primarily in children, is showing promising results for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in HIV-positive adults. This is the key finding of the international stool4TB study, conducted in Mozambique, Uganda, and Eswatini, with participation from the Research Center Borstel.