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The winners of the German Future Prize 2023, Prof. Dr. Michael Uder, University Hospital Erlangen, Dr. Stephan Biber and Dr. David Grodzki, both from Siemens Healthineers, have donated their prize money of 250,000 euros to purchase a model of the MRI they developed and won. This will now be used in Peru.

FAU has voted! From June 4 until June 12, all FAU members were able to cast their vote in the University election easily with just a few clicks on the FAU election portal. Here are the results.

At the FAU Music Festival, you'll enjoy two student bands and two headliners, all as part of a big joint party – both outside in the garden and indoors in the hall – for students, alumni, staff, and friends of FAU. Tickets are available on Reservix.

Finally, summer! The FAU Shop offers a variety of cool products for hot summer days – many in collaboration with FAU partner adidas. With the flip-flops, the large beach towel, and the lightweight sports tote bag, you'll be perfectly equipped for warm days at the university, by the lake, or on a weekend trip. All products are available at fau-shop.de.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new research training group at FAU that is investigating modern functional materials and thus making a major contribution to their efficient use in sustainable technologies such as photovoltaics, batteries and hydrogen.

In future, the production of bioactive molecules and drugs could do without external enzyme or metal catalysts. Chemists at FAU have developed a process in which an organoautocatalyst formed in situ enables the chemical synthesis of bioactive cyclic amine compounds with high efficiency under mild conditions.

Roland P. donated a kidney to his wife at the age of 74 – the 500th living-donor kidney transplant at Uniklinikum Erlangen At the age of 40, Sieglinde P. was diagnosed with IgA nephropathy, an incurable kidney disease that entails a progressive reduction in kidney function. For a long time, she rem...

Many findings in medical research come from experiments with mice, and the results often cannot be reproduced. Researchers at FAU and elsewhere now have a possible solution: they have transferred natural gut microbiome to laboratory mice, making them more robust against slight differences in the conditions in which they are held.

The Food Safety and Quality Research Center at FAU will be supported by the Rudolf and Henriette Schmidt-Burkhardt Foundation for a further three years. Funding is provided for the management of a junior research group, innovative and practice-oriented research projects and the promotion of young scientists.

Fungi can also go through a sexual cycle and must release messenger substances, so-called pheromones, and recognize them by means of suitable receptors. The working group led by Prof. Dr. Sven Krappmann at FAU, in collaboration with researchers in Germany and abroad, has now succeeded in identifying the previously unknown pheromone.