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The clock drawing test is a means of diagnosing disruptions to spatial orientation and dementias. Scientists at the Pattern Recognition Lab at the Department of Computer Science at FAU have fed artificial neural networks data from 2500 of these tests to teach them to evaluate them independently. Continue

Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy in Erlangen publishes results of a national study into mental strain experienced by healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic Continue

To save energy during the holiday season, the University will be closed from 24 December until 6 January. University Administration services such as the Student Advice and Career Service (IBZ) and the Examinations Office will be closed during this period. Continue

A special and a difficult year is coming to an end. In his video message, FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger thanks all students and employees for their dedication and solidarity and wishes them a Merry Christmas. Continue

The physician Prof. Dr. Jochen Klucken and the computer scientist Prof. Dr. Björn Eskofier are using artificial intelligence to develop new therapies for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Continue

Teams of researchers at universities in Erlangen, Hanover, Münster and Regensburg have received six million euros in funding from the German government in order to develop a new CAR T cell therapy. Continue

Congenital myopathies are a group of genetic muscle disorders that develop during childhood. No specific treatments currently exist for these disorders, which affect patients severely and are often fatal. Dr. Ana Ferreiro Sieiro, an internationally renowned expert in this field, has received the 2021 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. Continue

As part of the High-Tech Agenda Bavaria, FAU is establishing two more new departments as of 1 January 2021. The Department of Data Science (DDS) is a new addition to the Faculty of Sciences and focuses on fundamental research into mathematics of data science and statistics. Researchers at the depart... Continue

An international team of researchers, including researchers from FAU headed by Prof. Dr. Dirk M. Guldi have now managed to identify the fundamental problems relating to the photophysics and photochemistry of carbon nanocolloids (CNC), and ascertain possible approaches for research into these readily available, non-toxic and adaptable nanomaterials. Continue

Researchers at FAU have received a total of 1.32 million euros in funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for developing new procedures for voice diagnostics which can be used to diagnose and investigate voice disorders, hoarseness and their causes. Continue