Covid-19: From Vaccination to Medication | Uğur Şahin, Tzachi Pilpel, Patrick Cramer

Описание: Max Planck Forum: Three pioneering experts Uğur Şahin, Tzachi Pilpel & Patrick Cramer discuss the future of fighting #Covid19.

On November 11th 2021 at 6:30 p.m. the Max Planck Society and the Israeli Consulate General in Munich cordially invited to discuss this question in regard to the topic of mRNA research and its important contribution in the fight against Covid-19 together with three pioneering experts.

The work of Prof. Uğur Şahin, co-founder of BioNTech and his wife Dr. Özlem Türeci in the field of mRNA research led to the development of the first SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus disease. Awarded with the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, Şahin will discuss the evolution of the coronavirus, the development of the vaccine and potential future drugs for the treatment of the coronavirus disease.

Tzachi Pilpel, who holds the Ben-May Professorial Chair at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, will explain how his discovery on ambiguity of the genetic code as manifested by phenotypic errors has a potential to help prepare vaccines for next strains. Pilpel studies the function and evolution of genetic regulatory networks in microbes and mammals by combining experimental, computational biology and theoretical approaches. He chairs the review panel of the European Research Council (ERC) and was awarded the 2020 Kimmel Award for Innovative Investigation.

Patrick Cramer from the Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany will give an insight into targeting SARS-CoV-2 with antiviral drugs like Remdesivir and Molnupiravir and new substances in order to control local outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 and prepare for the emergence of future coronaviruses. The director of the Max Planck Institute aims to understand how our genome is transcribed and regulated in health and disease, how genes are turned on, and how genes are misregulated in disease. He recently received the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, one of the most prestigious awards in Europe.

Welcome Notes:
Carmela Shamir, Consul General of the State of Israel in Southern Germany
Prof. Ulman Lindenberger, Vice President of the Max Planck Society
Prof. Alon Chen, President of the Weizmann Institute of Science

Moderation: Monika Jones