News

What´s new at HITS? On this page you can find the latest news from and about HITS, including the latest scientific discoveries, personal achievements by our researchers or general changes at HITS.

ERC Starting Grant for HITS group leader

10. January 2022

Ganna Gryn’ova, head of the Computational Carbon Chemistry group at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, has been awarded approximately €1.5 …

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A new lead in FAIR data

22. December 2021

HITS researcher Ulrike Wittig will be a new lead in the data platfom of the European life science organization ELIXIR. She …

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Computing drug-target binding kinetics: three papers in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

20. December 2021

How long does a drug molecule stay bound to its protein target? How quickly does it bind to and dissociate from …

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Season’s Greetings

15. December 2021

As another challenging year draws to a close it is time to look back and take stock. First of all, we …

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New Research Project: Mathematical Oncology in Heidelberg

9. December 2021

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Heidelberg is working together to develop mathematical modeling to help decipher tumor development in hereditary …

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Issue 4 | 2021

7. December 2021

This fall, Heidelberg University has founded the Faculty of Engineering Sciences. HITS group leaders Rebecca Wade (Molecular and Cellular Modeling), Frauke …

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Revisiting star formation in the era of big data

1. December 2021

HITS group leader Kai Polsterer selected member of an international team at the International Space Science Institute Kai Polsterer, head of …

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How can a surface guide centriole assembly?

30. November 2021

Centrioles are cell organelles with a cylindrical shape and a 9-fold radially symmetric architecture. They play a role in the formation …

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“TULIPS” lets astronomy flourish in the classroom

30. November 2021

HITS researcher Eva Laplace has developed a software that visualizes the evolution of stars in short movies. For this project that …

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FAIRDOM-SEEK – a web-based platform for scientific datasets

25. November 2021

FAIRDOM-SEEK is an open source, web-based platform for the management of heterogeneous scientific research datasets, models or simulations, workflows, and research …

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