News & Events
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ERINHA conference: launching the European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents’ scientific strategy
The European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents (ERINHA) will be holding a one-day conference in Brussels on the 10th of May, 2017. The conference will provide an update on the current status of the development of interventions for highly pathogenic agents and will also introduce the attendees and potential users to the ERINHA infrastructure that will provide open access to...
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Successful conclusion of EVIDENT
After the end of the EVIDENT project on 30 October 2016, the final project report was submitted to the European Commission which marks the end of EVIDENT. The last two years were characterized by intensive work of the consortium to scientifically exploit specimens from EVD patients and to gather critical knowledge on B and T cell immunology, biomarkers, virus evolution, virulence determinants,...
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"Society Needs Science" Award for Cesar Muñoz-Fontela
This year, the "Society Needs Science" Award of the Stifterverband (Donors' Association for the Promotion of the Sciences and the Humanities in Germany) will be awarded to the EVIDENT team member Dr Cesar Muñoz-Fontela (Heinrich-Pette-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Experimentelle Virologie in Hamburg) for his achievements in the fight against Ebola. The award, which is given away on...
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Final Meeting of the EVIDENT consortium
The Final Meeting of the EVIDENT consortium took place at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (FORTH-IMBB) just outside of Heraklion (Greece) from October 5 to 6, 2016. The warm and sunny weather on the historic island Crete provided the perfect setting in order to look back on the project and to summarise the achieved results. Welcomed by the director of the IMBB, Prof....
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IMBB back-to-back lectures
Lectures by Prof. Stephan Günther und Prof. Miles Carroll at Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in Crete
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Lecture on EVIDENT project by Stephan Günther during RaMI-NGS conference in Hamburg
Professor Stephan Günther of the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine and coordinator in the EVIDENT project gave a lecture titled “Temporal and spatial analysis of the Ebola virus outbreak” on June 11, 2016 during the RaMI-NGS conference in Hamburg (Germany). The presentation was part of the session “Tracing community acquired pathogens” and gave an overview over the results of the...
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EVIDENT: current activities
With all the experimental data gathered in the field, EVIDENT investigators are trying systems immunology approach to look for immune signatures related with Ebola virus disease outcome, in particular signatures related with T cell, NK cell and dendritic cell function, key players in EVD immunity. Our current studies involve analysis of luminex cytokine data, transcriptional profiling,...
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Third EVIDENT paper published in Nature
For the third time an EVIDENT paper has been published online in the Journal Nature on 5 May 2016. Titled “Unique human immune signature of Ebola virus disease in Guinea” the authors analyzed the physiology of the human immune response (T cell response) to Ebola virus (EVD). In collaboration with the European Mobile Laboratory, blood samples of infected patients were collected and tested at the...