News Year: 2020

Issue 2 | 2020

16. June 2020

What our HITS researchers are doing during corona times as well as the latest research on collagen – those are the topics …

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Corona Emergency Fund: HITS supports students

19. May 2020

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is having a large impact on the life of many students, particularly in financial terms. In order …

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ELIXIR facilitates development of COVID-19 Disease Map

18. May 2020

HITS researchers collaborate with ELIXIR Nodes to contribute to the development of a knowledgebase of SARS-CoV-2 virus host-pathogen interactions. Announced last …

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Supercomputing time for HITS research against Covid-19

18. May 2020

Rebecca Wade from the Molecular and Celullar Modeling (MCM) group at HITS was awarded 3,250,000 core hours on the Marconi cluster at …

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Stretched beyond the limits

8. May 2020

It is a common phenomenon we know from cracked sneakers and burst tyres, and when it occurs it is usually in …

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Hunting for the molecular Achilles heel of Sars-CoV-2

4. May 2020

HITS Researchers are collaborating on drug discovery against SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19 disease. Rebecca Wade and her group are …

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New version of TRAPP released

15. April 2020

Version 4 uses machine learning and molecular simulation to predict druggability Researchers from the Molecular and Cellular Modeling (MCM) group at HITS …

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Issue 1 | 2020

9. March 2020

The formal reception that started off the 10th anniversary year, a new blog called “Via Data”, featuring some of the Institute’…

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10 years HITS – time to celebrate

10. February 2020

This year, the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) will celebrate its 10th anniversary. The Institute was established in 2010 by physicist …

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An explosive result

13. January 2020

Nuclear physicists from Finland, Denmark, and Germany succeeded to experimentally determine nuclear processes operating at conditions ten million times denser and 25 …

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