Press releases
News and views on research at the Helmholtz Association - this is the place to look for all the press releases issued by the Helmholtz Association Research Centres. A comfortable search function helps you to view specific news items from the Helmholtz Research Centres in chronological order. Older press releases since 2003 can be found in our archive or on the website of the relevant Helmholtz Research Centre.
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11 January 2013, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jülich, 10 January 2013 – The physicist Dr. Craig D. Roberts from Argonne National Laboratory, USA, has received the Helmholtz International Fellow Award. This prize worth € 20,000 is awarded by the Helmholtz Association and gives winners an opportunity to organize flexible research stays at one or more Helmholtz centres. Craig D. Roberts is planning to conduct research at the interface of nuclear and particle physics at Forschungszentrum Jülich's Nuclear Physics Institute (IKP) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS). The 50-year-old senior physicist heads the Theory Group at Argonne National Laboratory and is among the most cited nuclear physicists worldwide. He has been cooperating closely with IKP for a number of years, and since 2010, has spent several weeks at Jülich each year as a visiting scientist. The award for Craig D. Roberts also strengthens the new Forces and Matter Experiments section of the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA-FAME).
10 January 2013, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Bielefeld/Dortmund/Düsseldorf/Jülich, 9 January 2013 – Funding has been renewed for the CLIB Graduate Cluster Industrial Biotechnology (CLIB-GC), which was launched in 2009 by Bielefeld University, TU Dortmund University, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and Forschungszentrum Jülich. The cluster will receive funding for a further three years from the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as well as from the universities involved.
09 January 2013, German Cancer Research Centre
The jury at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) chose two outstanding young researchers, Matthias Eder and Mathias Heikenwälder, whose research findings can be directly translated into clinical practice.
09 January 2013, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Singh Chhatwal receives Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award 2013. In Kochi, India, the HZI scientist Prof Gursharan Singh Chhatwal was honoured today with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award 2013. With this award, the Indian government dignifies the merits non-resident Indians that have helped to improve the international reputation of India. Chhatwal has continually rendered outstanding services to the Indo-German scientific cooperation. The award was ...
09 January 2013, German Cancer Research Centre
Researchers from the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) have been the first to generate oncolytic viruses which specifically infect and kill CD133-positive cancer stem cells. Using such viruses, scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg were able to substantially reduce tumor growth in cell cultures and in an animal model. Cancer Research reports on these research results in its online edition of January 4, 2013.
