Last week, Vibor Laketa (University Hospital Heidelberg) visited fellow SHIELD PIs Ewelina Król and Krystyna Bieńkowska-Szewczyk in Gdańsk.

Several joint project ideas emerged — a great boost for strengthening pandemic preparedness together 🤝.

#PandemicPreparedness #Collaboration #HorizonEurope

Have you ever wondered: What is the Viral Glycan Shield – and why does it matter? 👀 Watch our short explainer video to find out! 🎥

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For more info on the viral glycan SHIELD and our project, visit our website: shield-consortium.eu

📅 Yesterday, Christian Klein (Heidelberg University) and @leohanke.bsky.social (Karolinska Institutet) presented the SHIELD project at the @defender-project.bsky.social Symposium in Hamburg

A big thanks to @pfaenderlab.bsky.social for the initiative and organisation of this inspiring event! 👏

At the Annual Meeting of the DPhG in Freiburg (Sept 29 – Oct 2, 2025), SHIELD coordinator Christian Klein co-chaired the session “Rethinking Antivirals” and introduced SHIELD 🛡️ to the audience.

Photo credits: Selina Muffler

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Sept 29–Oct 2, Freiburg: Our coordinator Christian Klein will chair Rethinking Antivirals at #DPHG2025. Featuring Anna Hirsch (HIPS) on RSV F protein - showing SHIELD’s potential beyond our current targets.

📄 Program: meetinghand.com/e/dphg-jahre...

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Meet SHIELD! 🤚

Today (and last, but not least!): The Cavalli group at CECAM/EPFL develops and applies computational methods to investigate biological systems of therapeutic interest. 🧪🧬

www.cecam.org

#ComputationalBiology #EPFL #CECAM #ScienceForHealth #HorizonEU #SHIELDproject 🚀🧠💻

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Today: The Synthetic Organic Chemistry Group at Radboud University is developing new chemical biology approaches to study glycosylation in context of viral infections.

www.ru.nl/en/departmen...

#Glycosylation #ViralInfections #SHIELDproject #SyntheticChemistry #RadboudUniversity

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Today: The Wandall Lab at the UCPH focuses on glycobiology, biotechnology, and cancer research, using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, 🧫 3D tissue models, and advanced proteomics 🧪.

icmm.ku.dk/english/rese...

#Glycobiology #CRISPR #Proteomics #CancerResearch #UCPH #SHIELDProject

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Today: The FlavImmunity group at Institut Pasteur uses the yellow fever 17D vaccine as a model to study flavivirus entry, maturation, and antigenicity.

research.pasteur.fr/en/team/flav...

#Flavivirus #VaccineResearch #StructuralBiology #YellowFever #InstitutPasteur #SHIELDproject

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Today: The research of the Lassa Virus Immunology group at the BNITM focuses on hemorrhagic fever viruses such as Lassa, Ebola, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever viruses. 🦠🌍

Web: www.bnitm.de/en/research/...

#LassaVirus #NipahVirus #TropicalMedicine #BNITM #SHIELDproject

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Today: The Hanke Laboratory at Karolinska Institutet studies pathogens and the immune responses they elicit, with a particular focus on emerging and re-emerging RNA viruses. 🧬🔬💡

Website: ki.se/en/research/...

#HorizonEU #VirusResearch #VaccineDevelopment #RNAViruses

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Today: The Laboratory of Recombinant Vaccines at Uni Gdansk is developing effective, next-generation recombinant antiviral vaccines based on mRNA and/or virus-like particles (VLPs).

virologygdansk.ug.edu.pl

Photo: Tomasz Nowicki

#HorizonEU #VirusResearch #VaccineDevelopment

Meet SHIELD! ✋

Today: Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry at #UniHeidelberg

From molecule to medicine: Christian Klein’s group drives translational medicinal chemistry to push drug discovery forward. 🔬💊

www.ipmb.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/...

#HorizonEU #MedChem #DrugDiscovery

Meet SHIELD! ✋

Today: The Protein Modelling Lab of ITQB Nova at Universidade Nova de Lisboa

The Lab (www.itqb.unl.pt/research/bio...), headed by Cláudio M. Soares and Diana Lousa, employs computational biophysical and ML/AI methods to investigate the structure and dynamics of proteins.

Meet SHIELD! 🤗

Today: The Laketa Lab (www.idip-heidelberg.org) at University Hospital Heidelberg represents advanced microscopy and FACS infrastructure under enhanced biosafety containment (BSL2/3) to enable research, drug discovery and diagnostics in the field of infectious diseases! 👍

Learn more about SHIELD, with Heidelberg University's press release on the project 👇

www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

We are ONLINE! 🤗 This is our Bluesky channel for the project SHIELD.

SHIELD is a health research project funded by the European Union and co-funded by SERI. The SHIELD consortium involving partners from all over Europe will develop molecular tools to prepare the EU for future pandemic events. 💪