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Medicine, Life Sciences and Health

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 1181: Checkpoints for Resolution of Inflammation
  • DFG TRR 130: B cells: Immunity and Autoimmunity
  • CRC/Transregio 221: Modulation of graft-versus-host and graft-versus leukemia immune responses after allogeneic stem cell transplantation
  • DFG SFB/TRR 241: Collaborative Research Center “Immune-Epithelial Communication in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases”
  • CRC/Transregio 305: Striking a moving target: From mechanisms of metastatic colonization to novel systemic therapies
  • SFB 1350:  Tubulussystem und Interstitium der Niere: (Patho-)Physiologie und Crosstalk
  • DFG RTG 1910: Medicinal Chemistry of Selective GPCR Ligands
  • DFG RTG 2162: Neurodevelopment and vulnerability of the central nervous system
  • DFG RTG 2504: Noval antiviral approaches
  • DFG RTG 2599: FAIR – Fine-tuners of the adaptive Immune Response
  • DFG-FOR 2886: PANDORA – Pathways triggering AutoimmuNity and Defining Onset of early Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Institut für Sportwissenschaft und Sport als WHO-Kooperationszentrum für Bewegung und Gesundheit
  • Forschungsverbund zur Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung im Gesundheitsforschungsprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (Capital4Health)
  • Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Klinische Forschung (IZKF)
  • Emil-Fischer-Centrum (EFC)
  • Interdisciplinary Center for Aging Research (ICA)
  • Medical Immunology Campus Erlangen (MICE)
  • Muscle Research Center Erlangen (MURCE)

Contact

Michael Wegner

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Michael Wegner

Institutsvorstand

Department of Biochemistry
Chair of Biochemistry II (Prof. Dr. Wegner)

  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-24620
  • Email: michael.wegner@fau.de
Falk Nimmerjahn

Prof. Dr. Falk Nimmerjahn

Department Biologie
Chair of Genetics (Prof. Nimmerjahn)

  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-25050
  • Email: falk.nimmerjahn@fau.de



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