ISAS Kompakt

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What’s Your Task as an Intern, Christopher?

Interns at ISAS do more than make coffee. Christopher Borg gives an exemplary insight into his internship, during which he worked on using a miniaturised plasma as an ion source for ion mobility spectrometry (IMS).

Doctoral Students Are on the Trail of Thrombo-Inflammation

In the project ‚TICARDIO‘, doctoral students study the interaction of inflammation and thromboses. Their approach contributes to improving the treatment of cardiovascular disease.

Proteogenomics Method Enables Analyses for Cancer Medicine & Marine Research

Bernhard Blank-Landeshammer developed a method that makes it possible to identify peptides in tissue samples using mass spectrometry. It combines information on genomics, proteomics and transcriptomics.

New Partnership with the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Since the beginning of August, a pharmacy student from Italy has been a guest at ISAS for the first time. Anna Percio from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome talks about her experiences in the ERC group Sulfaging.

Flipping Molecular ‘Switches’ for Heart Attacks

Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation. Therefore, scientists at ISAS are studying the phase after an acute infarction to find new therapeutic approaches.

“I’d like to help induce the hibernation of the human body”

Thibaut Vignane’s goal is to shed light on the molecular mechanisms by which persulfidation controls the ageing of human cells. In the interview, he explains what this has to do with space travel.