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14. 10. 2020

Researchers from Bochum, Munich and Warsaw Win This Year's Erwin Schrödinger Prize

This year's Erwin Schrödinger Prize goes to a team of researchers from Ruhr University Bochum, Warsaw Medical University, and Helmholtz Zentrum München, the German Center for Environmental Health, for their research on new active substances to fight parasitic diseases such as African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. These tropical diseases spread around the world at an increasing speed, and treatment so far has been difficult because available drugs are either very toxic or not effective. An interdisciplinary team of researchers that includes Ralf Erdmann and Vishal Kalel from Ruhr University Bochum developed a molecule that effectively blocks the metablism of parasites. Learn more about this research project here.


Erwin Schrödinger Preis 2020
Erwin Schrödinger Preis 2020
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