04.04.2025

Researchers from Hannover Medical School, the University Medical Center Göttingen, TU Braunschweig and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research want to investigate the age-related susceptibility of older people to infections - essentially building on an existing collection of health data in the Cluster of Excellence RESIST. Using the herpes virus as a practical example, predictive biomarkers are to be identified that can predict both the risk and the severity of an infection and thus facilitate the development of new approaches in prevention, diagnostics and therapy. With the aim of increasing standardization and quality control in innovative bioinformatics methods (so-called multi-omics approaches), the basis for a more efficient and sustainable use of relevant health data and the transfer of the successful methodological approach to other diseases is to be created.

The Hannover Unified Biobank (HUB) is coordinating the MoReHealth project.

More and more health data is available. However, the analysis of this data in order to extract and interpret meaningful information from it is not yet fully developed. This is also the case with so-called multi-omics data, which includes all of a person's genes and proteins, for example. This data can help to diagnose diseases, develop customized therapies and monitor treatment success. They need to be standardized and generated, processed and managed in a quality-controlled manner so that they can be used more efficiently and sustainably. This is where the MoReHealth project comes in, which is being funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and the Volkswagen Foundation with three million euros as part of the zukunft.niedersachsen program. Prof. Dr. Thomas Illig and Dr. Sara Haag at the MHH are coordinating this joint project between the Hannover Medical School (MHH), University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Braunschweig University of Technology (TU BS) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Lower Saxony.

It will start on September 1, 2025 for a period of four years.

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