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December 13th, 2006
Best thesis award for junior scientist at BNI
Biologist Annika Renneberg receives a 400 Euro award for the best diploma thesis in the study course biochemistry/molecular biology at the University of Hamburg.
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December 8th, 2006
Buruli ulcer - the mystery disease
Buruli ulcer is an emerging disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. Knowledge is scarce as to how the disease is transmitted. An African-European consortium lead by the Bernhard Nocht Institute now conducts a multidisciplinary project in three African countries which aims at the development of new tools and knowledge in the early recognistion and treatment of the disease. The German TV science show “Nano” broadcasts a documentary on the project site in Ghana on December 11th, 2006.
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December 5th, 2006
AIDS researchers Paul Racz and Klara Tenner-Racz receive Friedrich Sasse Prize
The 30,000 Euro Prize is awarded on December 6th at the Tibor Diamantenstein Symposion "Advances in Immunotherapy" in Berlin.
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December 4th, 2006
Christmas gift for globetrotters and science fans: The BNI shirt collection
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Shirt gallery (bilingual)

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November 28th, 2006
Start of a Malaria Vaccine Study in Ghana
The Bernhard Nocht Institute´s Ghanaian research centre KCCR is part of a multinational partnership conducting Phase II field trials for a new malaria vaccine candidate launched recently.
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November 2nd, 2005
European Union co-funds infrastructure project at the Bernhard Nocht Institute

February 17th, 2005
Transplantation-associated rabies cases in Germany

July 26th, 2004
Bernhard Nocht Institute is designated Collaborating Centre by WHO

October 27th, 2003
BNI Director appointed as scientific advisor of WHO Special Programme on Tropical Diseases


Archive of press releases in German: click here .

 

INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS

May 13th-14th 2003
International Kurt A. Körber Symposium
"HIV Vaccines: Future Challenges"

Satellite Workshop of the 9th German and 14th Austrian AIDS Congress
(May 14th-17th 2003, Hamburg)

August 29th-31st 2002
European Commission COST Action B9 Expert meeting in Hamburg
"Proteins of the redox metabolism as targets for the development of new drugs against malaria and other protozoan infections". Contact: Prof. Rolf D. Walter

September 19th-22nd 2001
International Filariasis Conference (co-sponsored by the World Health Organisation)

Archive of all events (in German): click here .
 
 


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