Academies urge new measures against drug-resistant bacteria

News | Monday, 17 June 2013

Academies urge new measures against drug-resistant bacteria

Fewer and fewer antibiotics are available for an increasing number of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. As a result, it is becoming increasingly difficult to treat infected patients successfully. The Academy of Sciences ...

News | Friday, 14 June 2013

Meeting of the G8 Science Ministers and National Science Academies

On Wednesday 12 June 2013, a meeting between the presidents of the G8 national academies and the science ministers took place at the Royal Society for the purpose of discussing those global challenges that demand a scientific response. One topic of particular interest ...

News | Wednesday, 29 May 2013

The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina makes recommendations for the G8 summit in Lough Erne

In the run up to the G8 summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, in partnership with the national science academies of the G8 member states and five other science academies, is calling on the heads of state and ...

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Ernst Bamberg hat mit fünf anderen Wissenschaftlern den Brain Prize 2013 für die Entwicklung der Optogenetik erhalten

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Helmut Schwarz ist mit der Ehrendoktorwürde der Hanyang University in Seoul ausgezeichnet worden

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Dorothea Kuhn, langjährige Herausgeberin der Leopoldina-Ausgabe von Goethes Schriften zur Naturwissenschaft, feiert 90. Geburtstag

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Uta Frith honoured as “Dame Commander of the British Empire” “for services to clinical science”

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Jörg Hacker für seine Beiträge zum Verständnis der Entwicklung und Verbreitung bakterieller Infektionen mit dem Bayerischen Maximiliansorden geehrt

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Bertram Brenig erhält chinesischen „Friendship Award“ für die Einführung molekularer Verfahren in der Tierzucht

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Jürgen Margraf zum neuen Präsidenten der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie DGPs gewählt

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Sigmar Wittig elected as Secretary of Class I to the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

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Jörg Hacker zum neuen Vorsitzenden des Kuratoriums der Wissenschafts-Pressekonferenz gewählt

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F. Ulrich Hartl für seine Forschung zur Faltung von Proteinen mit Shaw Prize 2012 ausgezeichnet

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Altpräsident Benno Parthier feiert 80. Geburtstag – nach der Wiedervereinigung führte er die Leopoldina in das gesamtdeutsche Wissenschaftssystem

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Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus first European to be elected as President of the International Combustion Institute

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Eberhart Zrenner erhält Ludwig von Sallmann Preis für die Erforschung blindheitsverursachender Netzhautdegenerationen

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Eckard Wimmer wird in Würdigung seines Lebenswerks zur molekularen Virologie mit der Robert-Koch-Medaille in Gold geehrt

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Tasuko Honjo erhält Robert-Koch-Preis 2012 für seine Arbeiten über die natürliche Optimierung von Immunreaktionen

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Florian Holsboer bekommt Robert-Pfleger-Preis 2012 für Erkenntnisse über die Entstehung und Therapie von Depressionserkrankungen

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Reinhard Genzel honoured with Crafoord-Prize in Astronomy 2012 for proof of evidence of supermassive black holes

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Der Bildungsforscher Jürgen Baumert erhält den Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Preis von Leopoldina und Stifterverband

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Matthias Beller ist mit dem Gay-Lussac und Alexander von Humboldt-Preis 2011 für seine Arbeiten zur Katalyse ausgezeichnet worden

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Susan M. Gasser to receive the 2012 FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award for her research on chromatin biology and epigenetics

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Jules A. Hoffmann receives the 2011 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity

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