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Lisa Seekircher received the Dr. Otto Seibert award

Lisa Seekircher received the Dr. Otto Seibert award for her work “Immune response after two doses of the BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine and risk of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infection in Tyrol, Austria: an open-label, observational phase 4 trial“, which has been published in Lancet Microbe in 2023.

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Age at menopause and the risk of stroke

In this study, we investigated the relationship between age at menopause and different types of stroke in >200,000 postmenopausal women using data from the EPIC-CVD study and the UK Biobank. We obtained observational associations and performed Mendelian Randomisation analysis to study causality. We found a significant association between earlier menopause and higher risk of stroke […]

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Towards a European strategy to address the COVID-19 pandemic

  • November 22, 2021
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How should Europe deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in the future? Which strategies should be pursued and what specific risks should be considered? In September 2021, we published a call in the Lancet for closer European collaboration in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. Together with this call in the Lancet, we published an expert opinion paper […]

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