The GBS annual conference is being held in Erlangen from 26 to 28 September. We spoke to the conference president, Prof. Dr. Udo Gaipl, about new findings in radiobiology and their applications in cancer treatment.
Exercising and doing good – not just for oneself, but also for cancer patients. Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, the Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen EMN and the Association for Nutrition and Exercise for Cancer Patients have extended an invitation to join them for a special event.
FAU has received 2.5 million euros in funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for five collaborative projects on neutron and X-ray radiation research.
There is currently no cure for patients with HIV or the T-cell leukaemia virus. Possible approaches to finding cures for these viruses is one of the topics of an international basic research conference on retrovirology in Erlangen.
On 17 November 2015, Dr. Wilhelm Polster, chairman of the charitable foundation Manfred-Roth-Stiftung, presented another generous check to Prof. Dr. Werner G. Daniel, chairman of Forschungsstiftung Medizin at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen.
FAU has done well in the Bavarian government's digitalisation initiative: two new professorships will be established at the University as part of Zentrum Digitalisierung.Bayern (ZD.B), one dedicated to e-health/m-health and one focusing on digital industrial service systems.
Developments in medicine and society are just some of the factors that have caused changes to how we deal with death and dying. What does dying with dignity look like today? What conditions are required in hospice and palliative care?
At FAU, researchers at the Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen are working on a new HIV vaccination strategy that makes use of the immune response to a hepatitis B vaccine that has already been approved.
The number of cases of kidney disease has increased considerably in recent years. The DAAD funding will enable three universities to strengthen their connections and take the current exchange of research and medical expertise to the next level.
