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05AUG 2022
Study
One of the most outstanding students in the world
He is studying Molecular Medicine at FAU. But that is by no means all that Sagithjan Surendra is doing: Whilst studying, he has founded the charity Aelius Förderwerk, which supports disadvantaged children and young people. At the same time he is studying Public Policy at the University of Essex, UK. He has already received several […]
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05AUG 2022
Research
Diagnosis and therapy of ME/CFS: What can we learn from Long Covid?
On Thursday August 4, 2022, Klaus Holetschek, the Bavarian Minister of State for Health and Care and Bernhard Seidenath, the chair of the committee for health and care in the Bavarian parliament, visited the Department of Ophthalmology (director: Prof. Dr. Friedrich E. Kruse) at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen to find out about the current status of research […]
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04AUG 2022
Research
FAU is set to become a beacon in quantum research
In recognition of our outstanding expertise in quantum research: a consortium consisting of eleven researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) will receive roughly three million euros in funding by 2025. The new lighthouse project Quantum Measurement and Control for the Enablement of Quantum Computing and Quantum Sensing (QuMeCo) will ignite basic research into quantum computing, sensing […]In recognition of our outstanding expertise in quantum research: a consortium consisting of eleven researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) will receive roughly three million euros in funding by 2025. The new lighthouse project Quantum Measurement and Control for the Enablement of Quantum Computing and Quantum Sensing (QuMeCo) will ignite basic research into quantum computing, sensing […]
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04AUG 2022
FAU news
Strength in research: FAU received more funding in 2021
In 2021, FAU was awarded almost a quarter of a billion euros in third-party funding. With an increase of more than eight percent, this means FAU, which is the largest university in Northern Bavaria, has once again increased the volume of third-party funding it receives. Particularly pleasing: FAU increased its funding from the German Research […]
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02AUG 2022
Research
Gaining insights into spastic paraplegia
Rare diseases, as the name indicates, only affect a small part of the population. However, for those affected they are particularly challenging, often especially because research into such rare diseases tends to be less of a priority. One of these diseases is hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), a disease that causes spasms and weakness in the […]
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01AUG 2022
Research
Fighting cancer with organoid models, cell characteristics and zebrafish
The Erlangen location of the Bavarian Center for Cancer Research (BZKF) is providing start-up funding worth a total of 110,000 euros to three research projects at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen. The aim of the projects is to conduct fundamental research into new therapeutic approaches for treating cancer. The research team led by Dr. Gloria Lutzny-Geier and Dr. […]
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01AUG 2022
FAU news
Max Planck Center for Physics and Medicine celebrates topping out ceremony
Another milestone in the construction of the interdisciplinary center in Erlangen has been achieved. Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs, Hubert Aiwanger, commended the project for creating an ideal research environment at the topping out ceremony for the Max Planck Center for Physics and Medicine (MPZPM). The Center is a joint institution of the Max Planck […]
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25JUL 2022
Research
Space travel: Bone aging in fast forward
Long periods in space damage bone structure irreparably in some cases and can make parts of the human skeleton age prematurely by up to 10 years. This is what a sport scientist at FAU has now discovered in conjunction with other researchers from Germany, Canada and the USA. Adapted training programs in conjunction with medication […]
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21JUL 2022
FAU news
FAU in the top 100 worldwide in 4 subjects
Energy Science and Engineering (40), Telecommunication Engineering (64), Metallurgical Engineering (73) and Medical Technology (88) – these are the subjects in which FAU has once again ranked among the top 100 best universities worldwide in the recently published Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects. Energy Science and Engineering has moved up six places compared to […]
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21JUL 2022
Research
Who will survive climate change?
Researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and FAU have investigated extinction events with rapid global warming in the last 300 million years. They discovered that species from warm and cold waters are highly likely to become extinct as a consequence of global warming, while species in temperate waters survive. “Fossils from the Earth’s […]
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19JUL 2022
Research
ALS: Early disease mechanisms discovered
At the current time, there is no cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Things may be about to change, however. Researchers at FAU and the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have identified a protein that already displays pathological characteristics at an early stage of the neurological disease. The team has published their discovery, that […]
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18JUL 2022
FAU news
Who is … Prof. Maria Rentetzi?
Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi has been holding the new “Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies” at FAU since 2021. For her research, the physicist and historian focuses on the intersection of science and technology, the history of science, the history of diplomacy, political science and international relations. Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies: […]
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