The University's Charles Tanford Protein Centre will take its protein research to a new level. Here around 255 employees will work together in the future on questions relating to the building blocks of life.  The costs for the new building amounted to around 40 million euros, half of which was paid by the federal government and half by the state of Saxony-Anhalt.  Read more >>

Professor Stefan Hüttelmaier is one of the new tenants of the Protein Centre. His work focuses on cutting-edge ideas in cancer research. The professor of molecular cell biology heads up one of the 14 research groups.   Read more >>

Animal diseases are posing ever greater challenges for the agriculture industry and the demand for effective vaccines is extremely high. This is where the spin-off company from Halle called Verovaccines comes in with its innovative yeast-based vaccines. A further obstacle has now been overcome. The company will again receive funding amounting to 3.1 million euros over the next three years as part of the GO-Bio programme of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Read more >>