Tag: Corona

The aim of the ambitious project is to develop monoclonal antibodies that can be used, for example, to protect medical personnel, staff in care homes and high-risk patients.

A team of researchers at FAU has now completed detailed modelling of the Covid-19 pandemic and has derived potential strategies for a controlled easing of restrictions.

The Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research has launched a study aimed at recording whether Covid-19 patients experience a loss of taste and smell, as well as any changes to sensory perception within the mouth.

We wish you a successful start to an (initially) online summer semester. Here are five useful tips to make sure you get off to a good start at FAU (Image: FAU/Michaela Hiermeier)

Students start virtual summer semester at FAU. ‘We’re ready for lectures to start. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to our teaching staff and everyone else involved,’ says FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger.

People wearing face masks on the streets are becoming more commonplace. Medical face and respiratory masks are now scarce and not easy to obtain. Many are taking matters into their own hands by sewing DIY masks. However, the effectiveness of these masks is rather low and they convey a false sense of security, emphasises Prof. Dr. Dirk Schubert. He explains in this interview how to improve DIY masks.

Prof. Dr. Holger Hackstein talks about how his work as a transfusion physician has changed since the coronavirus pandemic, how special regulations of pharmaceutical law facilitate current work and how he assesses the preparations of Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, in a YouTube talk with host Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger, President of FAU.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused a great deal of upheaval – also at FAU. Some students are now facing serious financial difficulties through no fault of their own. FAU would like to offer its support in this situation with the #FAU4FAU – Staff for Students fundraising campaign.

A type of video monitoring could help us get the better of coronavirus: Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Light and FAU are trying to observe how cells become infected with Sars-CoV-2 in real time. They are hoping to achieve this by installing a particularly powerful microscope in a high-security virology laboratory.

Helping each other is the order of the day. This not only applies in your neighbourhood, but also at the University. Chairs and institutes at FAU have started collaborating with Neue Materialien Fürth (NMF) GmbH, a research centre of the Bavarian State, to manufacture personal protective equipment that is urgently needed by medical staff at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen.