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The nominating institution Hans Knöll Institute on the breakthrough: The dramatic rise of multidrug resistant infections requires global R&D efforts. This is not only a scientific, but a global socioeconomic challenge. Since antibiotics development is not lucrative, publicly funded programs are increasingly important. Kloß’s group is developing a new antibiotic…

Interacpedia is a platform that transforms the way of attracting, connecting, developing and identifying people through an experiential and gamified learning model, focused on building massive communities that present proposals to problems, needs or opportunities that organizations seek to solve, using the technology to demonstrate their purpose, know-how, do and…

From the stuff of dystopian science fiction movies to everyday companions – with the rise of ubiquitous mobile computing power, artificial intelligence (AI) is already permeating modern life. As of 2017, deep learning systems power our phones’ voice-assistants, recommend the latest movies, and optimise our bike ride to work. AI…

Thomas Hutschalik creates different heart cell types from stem cells and combines them together. By checking how their rhythm is influenced by, for example, immune cells, he tries to help improve patients’ treatments.

There are certain medical advances that have improved the overall quality of modern life by such degrees that civilisation seems unthinkable without them. Antibiotics certainly fall into this category. Infections that used to be life threatening for the biggest part of human history can now be treated with ease, thanks…

We create a domain-specific programming language, PVL, which aims to verify program implementations against their specifications via an internal verification engine embedded into PVL compiler. Tags: Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Safety-Critical Systems.

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Marcus Mall, Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in the category of Life Sciences. He talked about his role as chair of the Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical…

Shujaaz network connects young people with the information, skills and resources they need to take control of their own lives; embedding them in a digital and real-world community that gives them the self-belief to succeed, in their context and on their terms. The HMBA program – An MBA for hustlers-…

Iain Couzin and his team discovered that there exist fundamental geometrical principles that apply across scales of biological organization, from the scale of neural interactions, to individual and collective decision-making. Specifically, their work revealed that animals’ brains cope with environmental complexity by spontaneously reducing the many options they face in…

How Genetics Provides New Tools for Understanding Innate Immunity Humans and other organisms are under constant threat from deadly invaders – viruses, bacteria and other microbes which infiltrate the body, create dangerous toxins and damage or kill cells. Along the line of evolution, organisms developed sophisticated defence mechanisms to deal…