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Your journey to FAU
Regardless of whether your journey at FAU starts with training, studying, research or any other type of occupation, the University offers help and advice for all stages of your career, pages with information and contacts to assist you.
People at FAU work in administration, teaching or in research, study at one of our five faculties and often keep close ties with the University after they have finished their studies. We have put together information for students, researchers, staff and alumni on the following pages.
A research team led by PD Dr. Ulrich Rother from Erlangen University Hospital is currently developing a new diagnostic procedure for improved and gentler treatment of peripheral arterial occlusive disease, which mainly affects older people.
The protein ZEB1 and the role its plays in connective tissue in colorectal cancer
It is not only tumor cells but also certain cells in connective tissue, especially those known as fibroblasts, that have a decisive role to play when cancer progresses and metastasizes. A team of researchers from Frie...
Immune cells, in particular T cells, must be trained to recognize cancer cells and target them specifically. A team led by FAU physicist Prof. Dr. Julio Vera-González is working together with researchers from Erlangen, Amsterdam and Rostock to investigate how this can succeed.
A treatment for metastatic cancer – researchers at FAU, the University of Innsbruck, the MIT and Universität Würzburg have now come a major step closer to this ambitious goal.
