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  10.09.2026

  Silke Meiners takes on the role of Vice-President of the European Respiratory Society

  A role of great responsibility at European level: Prof. Silke Meiners was elected as the new Vice-President of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) this Tuesday. The election took place during this year’s ERS Congress, which was held in Barcelona from 5 to 9 September 2026. With more than 20,000 participants each year, the congress is regarded as the world’s largest gathering of specialists in respiratory medicine an

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  09.09.2026

  Building the world's evidence base to tackle drug-resistant tuberculosis

  A new international programme, RESPECT-TB, coordinated by the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford in collaboration with the University of the Witwatersrand South Africa and Queen Mary University of London, will unite researchers and national tuberculosis programmes across five high-burden countries to build one of the world's richest evidence resources on drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB).

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  31.08.2026

  Book a Scientist - Speed-Dating mit der Wissenschaft

  Es ist wieder soweit! Am 29. September 2026 gibt es die Möglichkeit, sich 25 Minuten lang mit einer Expertin oder einem Experten der Leibniz-Gemeinschaftauszutauschen und alles zu fragen, was Sie schon immer zu Ihrem Lieblingsthema wissen wollten. Wir sind auch in diesem Jahr wieder mit spannenden Themen dabei.