Medicine, Life Sciences and Health

Ensuring, maintaining and restituting health are central desiderata that can only be accomplished under proper societal and medical conditions. Their determination and analysis are of paramount socio-economic relevance and represent important research topics. Parameters and requirements that guarantee or restore physical and mental health of an individual change during the course of life. These have to be determined. Additionally there is a great need to develop and implement science-based procedures, behavioral patterns and therapies that help to maintain health, prevent or cure disease. This endeavor requires intensive, innovative and integrated research activities in molecular life sciences and medicine that start out with basic science approaches and the development of fundamental concepts and eventually translate them into practice. Areas with special focus are research in infection and immunology, cardiovascular and renal research, oncology and neurosciences. Further central issues include ethical, legal, sociological and economic aspects.

Outstanding Activities

• • DFG CRC 796: Reprogramming of host cells by microbial effectors
  • DFG CRC 1181: Checkpoints for Resolution of Inflammation
  • DFG TRR 130: B cells: Immunity and Autoimmunity
  • DFG RTG 1660: Key Signals of Adaptive Immune Response
  • DFG RTG 1910: Medicinal Chemistry of Selective GPCR Ligands
  • DFG RTG 1962: Dynamic Interactions at Biological Membranes – From Single Molecules to Tissue
  • DFG RTG 2162: Neurodevelopment and vulnerability of the central nervous system
  • DFG CRU 257:  Molecular Pathogenesis and Optimised Therapy of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Institut für Sportwissenschaft und Sport als WHO-Kooperationszentrum für Bewegung und Gesundheit
  • International Network to Implement EU Physical Activity Guidelines on Infrastructure Development EU-Förderung (IMPALA.net)
  • Forschungsverbund zur Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung im Gesundheitsforschungsprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (Capital4Health)
  • ForIPS: Bavarian Research Network Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
  • Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Klinische Forschung (IZKF)
  • Applied Protein Centre Erlangen (APCE) (englisch)
  • Emil-Fischer-Centrum (EFC)
  • Interdisciplinary Center for Aging Research (ICA)
  • Medical Immunology Campus Erlangen (MICE)
  • Muscle Research Center Erlangen (MURCE)
  • Emerging Fields Initiative: Integrative ‘Big Data Modeling’ for the development of novel therapeutic approaches for breast cancer (BIG-THERA)

Contact

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Michael Wegner

• Job title: Institutsvorstand
• Organization: Department of Biochemistry
• Working group: Chair of Biochemistry II (Prof. Dr. Wegner)
• Phone number: +49 9131 85-24620
• Email: michael.wegner@fau.de

Prof. Dr. Falk Nimmerjahn

• Organization: Department Biologie
• Working group: Chair of Genetics (Prof. Nimmerjahn)
• Phone number: +49 9131 85-25050
• Email: falk.nimmerjahn@fau.de