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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.

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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