The virology department of TUM and the Helmholtz Research Center meet on 4th and 5th August 2025 to discuss ongoing research projects and potential collaboration. In this context, TUM presented "Host-Targeted Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Discovery Using Machine Learning and Advanced Cell Models" authored by
Matteo Rizzato1, Maximilian A Kelch2, Jeremy de Sousa2, Seyoum Ayehunie3, Mathieu Mateo4, Caroline Goujon5, Bart Haagmans6, Holger Erfle7, Rainer König8, Tuna Toptan1

1 Institute of Virology, Technical Univeristy of Munich, Munich, Germany
2 Institute for Medical Virology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
3 MatTek Europe, Bratislava, Slovakia
4 Institut Pasteur, Lyon, France
5 Institut de Recherche en Infectiologie de Montpellier (IRIM), CNRS, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France
6 Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
7 Advanced Biological Screening Facility (ABSF), High-Content Analysis of the Cell (HiCell), BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
8 Institute for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany