Issue 2 | 2020
What our HITS researchers are doing during corona times as well as the latest research on collagen – those are the topics …
Corona Emergency Fund: HITS supports students
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is having a large impact on the life of many students, particularly in financial terms. In order …
ELIXIR facilitates development of COVID-19 Disease Map
HITS researchers collaborate with ELIXIR Nodes to contribute to the development of a knowledgebase of SARS-CoV-2 virus host-pathogen interactions. Announced last …
Supercomputing time for HITS research against Covid-19
Rebecca Wade from the Molecular and Celullar Modeling (MCM) group at HITS was awarded 3,250,000 core hours on the Marconi cluster at …
Stretched beyond the limits
It is a common phenomenon we know from cracked sneakers and burst tyres, and when it occurs it is usually in …
Hunting for the molecular Achilles heel of Sars-CoV-2
HITS Researchers are collaborating on drug discovery against SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19 disease. Rebecca Wade and her group are …
New version of TRAPP released
Version 4 uses machine learning and molecular simulation to predict druggability Researchers from the Molecular and Cellular Modeling (MCM) group at HITS …
Issue 1 | 2020
The formal reception that started off the 10th anniversary year, a new blog called “Via Data”, featuring some of the Institute’…
10 years HITS – time to celebrate
This year, the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) will celebrate its 10th anniversary. The Institute was established in 2010 by physicist …
An explosive result
Nuclear physicists from Finland, Denmark, and Germany succeeded to experimentally determine nuclear processes operating at conditions ten million times denser and 25 …