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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
Guide rails for research
Five instead of eight – FAU has redefined its key research priorities. Anja Boßerhoff and Georg Schett explain in an interview why the University has taken this step and the process behind it. Mr Schett, FAU has had five new key research priorities since 2024, it used to be eight. Does this mean FAU is […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
Taking images with a grain of salt
Armin Nagel is developing a new MRI procedure: The biosignature imaging measures the salt content in tissue and can detect changes earlier than is the case to date. When Armin Nagel looks at MRI images for medical diagnostic purposes, he looks for different details than usually is the case. He does not focus on the […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
The start-up factory
FAU and ZOLLHOF have good chances of becoming one of the “Startup Factories” in the competition run by the German government. In our interview, Kathrin Möslein and Benjamin Bauer explain their concept and how they plan to make the leap from incubator to ZOHO Factory. Mr. Bauer, can you tell us a little about the […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
Diagnosis without boundaries
MRI scanners have revolutionized the diagnosis of many diseases. Michael Uder, Director of the Institute of Radiology at Uniklinikum Erlangen would like to be able to use the technology in places it is currently not possible, for example in developing countries. In 2023, he was awarded the German Future Prize for his work. Professor Uder, […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
Light in, sound out
When children come to the Uniklinikum Erlangen complaining of a sore stomach, the search for the cause can prove to be rather challenging. Funded with an ERC Starting Grant, Ferdinand Knieling is conducting research into a new, minimally invasive diagnostic method based on ultrasound. A flying visit to the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
The Renaissance of things
In a complex digitalization project, Udo Andraschke hopes to contribute towards reverting academic collections in Germany to that what they used to be: a meeting point and a place where researchers from all disciplines can share and transfer knowledge. The heart in the CT is more than 100 years old. The object from FAU’s Anatomic […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
Need for Speed
High speeds and precision are the order of the day at High Voltage Motorsports e.V., where students design and build racing cars in their workshop in Tennenlohe. High Voltage – the first thing that comes to mind at FAU is not the debut album of the Australian rock band AC/DC, although it does have something […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
More than a gut feeling: The brain-gut connection
What role does our digestive tract play in triggering Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis or Alzheimer’s? Beate Winner is the speaker for a clinical research group exploring this question. It is approximately six meters long. It is home to huge quantities of bacteria, viruses and fungi, totaling roughly ten times more than the number of cells we […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
Two against the wolf
Taking a playful approach to raising awareness of serious diseases and opening up new channels for patient communication: the app “Fighting Lupus” developed by Sandra Jeleazcov and Benedikt Morschheuser. “Imagine a girl: young, lively, incredibly talented. Suddenly she becomes ill: LUPUS, a cute name, but a brutal autoimmune disease.” These are the opening words in […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
“Hello, my friend”
What is the importance of the EELISA Alliance for FAU? An interview with Joachim Hornegger, Johanna Hojer and Melanie Viebahn. Eight countries, ten universities, one alliance – that is the European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance, or EELISA for short. In May 2024, students, researchers, members of staff and presidents of the involved universities […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
The brain engineer
Silvia Budday explores how our brain reacts to mechanical forces. Since 2024, her work has been funded by an ERC Starting Grant. The young professor in mechanical engineering does not see being a scientist and being a mother as a contradiction in terms. It would have been too far by boat. So Silvia Budday and […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
Responsibility from the outset
Why FAU is an excellent location for young researchers, and what advice FAU President Hornegger has for them The President’s office in the Schloss in Erlangen. Joachim Hornegger has just come out of a marathon of back to back meetings. An interview about early career researchers and new talent is quite relaxing for him. That’s […]
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