11.05.2026 MS Wissenschaft has some MiNu influence on board this year

GRK 2937's PI Katharina Höfer has contributed a join-in exhibit rooted in LOEWE research and in collaboration with MiNu.

Following the grand opening on 7 May with Dorothee Bär, Federal Minister for Research, Technology and Space, the MS Wissenschaft set off in Berlin on its 2026 tour under the theme “Medicine of the Future”. 

“In Search of the ‘Magic Bullet’” is the name of the exhibit featuring cutting-edge LOEWE research from Hesse, which aims to provide visitors with clear answers to questions concerning the roles phages, proteins and RNA play in modern anti-pathogen research. “Our 3D models show where drugs dock onto proteins or RNA – like a key fitting into the right lock – and what building blocks phages consist of,” explains Prof. Katharina Höfer, a pharmaceutical microbiologist at Marburg University, LOEWE Professor of Excellence and researcher in the “M4C” Cluster of Excellence – Microbes-for-Climate as well as in the Research Training Group GRK 2937 “MiNu” Nucleotide Metabolism in Microbes. 

The MS Wissenschaft was initiated by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space and Science in Dialogue over 20 years ago. This year, the ship will visit 36 cities across Germany, Poland and Austria from May to September. Katharina Höfer’s exhibit was developed in collaboration with the Marburg School of Pharmacy, the DFG-funded GRK 2937 MiNu, several LOEWE research projects and ProLOEWE, the network of LOEWE research initiatives. It demonstrates how basic research, technology and societal relevance come together – and what the medicine of the future might look like. 

 

Source: Press release from the ProLOEWE network of LOEWE research projects. This is an abridged translation. Click here for the full German text and for contacts.