World Tuberculosis Day 2021: New drugs for old bugs 24.03.2021 On the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day, Jennifer Herrmann, scientist in the department Microbial Natural Products, talks about the epidemiology of the disease and her...
Putting pathogens on mute 19.03.2021 Saarbrücken researchers develop novel strategy for treating hospital germs
Deep insights into cystobactamid biosynthesis 10.03.2021 Scientists from the Microbial Natural Products department reveal how myxobacteria produce antimicrobial compounds.
Exciting natural products from rare myxobacteria 18.02.2021 Scientists from the Department of Microbial Natural Products discover a new class of natural products in an unusual myxobacterial strain
Leibniz Prize for Rolf Müller 10.12.2020 HIPS Director receives most important research award in Germany
Federal government decides on million-euro funding for HIPS 01.12.2020 The Federal Budget Committee has assured the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) funding of 47 million euros for the further expansion of the...
Important step in fighting resistant bacteria 01.12.2020 Team of Prof Anna Hirsch receives 1.46 million Euros in funding
ERC Starting Grant awarded to Gregor Fuhrmann 06.10.2020 Gregor Fuhrmann and two other HZI scientists receive million-euro funding from the European Research Council
Saarland University appoints Alexander Titz as Professor for Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry 09.07.2020 HIPS research group leader develops drug candidates and diagnostics for bacterial infections
Biomedical research strengthened in Saarland through the new Leibniz Science Campus 29.06.2020 HIPS takes part in the “Living Therapeutic Materials” project
Mirror, mirror – New enzyme group converts amino acid into its mirror image 29.06.2020 HIPS researchers decipher a step in the biosynthesis of an antibiotically active natural product
EU funds training network for young researchers 25.06.2020 Anna K. H. Hirsch coordinates EU-funded training of new generation of researchers
To the site of action - in the nanotransporter 17.04.2020 Novel vehicles increase the efficiency of antibiotics against chronic infections
Working together in the fight against tuberculosis and malaria 09.12.2019 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds collaboration of the HZI/HIPS with Evotec to develop new drug approaches for treating tuberculosis and malaria
Pharmaceutical Research Alliance Saarland launched 29.11.2019 The Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Saarland University and the Leibniz Institute for New Materials enter into an interdisciplinary...
Anna Hirsch nominated for Young Chemist Award 09.09.2019 The European Federation of Medical Chemistry awarded HIPS researcher Anna Hirsch the Runner-Up Prize as Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia 2019
Gregor Fuhrmann awarded Young Investigators Prize 05.09.2019 HIPS researcher Gregor Fuhrmann has received the Young Investigators Award of the Horst Böhme Foundation of the German Pharmaceutical Society
