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Health - Pharmacology - 28.02.2024
'Can we delay age-related diseases?'
’Can we delay age-related diseases?’
Children with Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) develop premature aging symptoms. Karima Djabali, Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), wants to understand the biological m

Chemistry - Health - 28.02.2024
Budgetary powers and democracy, molecular machines produce new materials, search for the key building blocks for the biosynthesis of anti-cancer drugs
Budgetary powers and democracy, molecular machines produce new materials, search for the key building blocks for the biosynthesis of anti-cancer drugs

Life Sciences - Health - 21.02.2024
High Honour for Ground-breaking Findings on Brain Tumours
Heidelberg scientists receive the BIAL Award in Biomedicine worth 300,000 euros Their ground-breaking discovery of how healthy nerve cells in the brain make contact with glioblastoma tumour cells and

Health - 15.02.2024
Chemistry Professor at Freie Universität Berlin Rainer Haag Receives Prestigious Grant
Chemistry Professor at Freie Universität Berlin Rainer Haag Receives Prestigious Grant

Health - Pharmacology - 13.02.2024
When the Nose Goes to the Knee
When the Nose Goes to the Knee

Health - Life Sciences - 05.02.2024
Universität Hamburg Applying for Fifth Cluster
Universität Hamburg Applying for Fifth Cluster

History / Archeology - Health - 05.02.2024
Love and Hate in Ancient Times
Love and Hate in Ancient Times
Magical texts from Egypt in Coptic script and language are the focus of a research project at the University of Würzburg. They are now being presented for the first time in a 600-page book. A team of scholars spent five years studying them: "magical" texts from Egypt that were written on papyrus, parchment, paper and shards of clay - so-called ostraca - and date from the period between the fourth and twelfth centuries AD.

Health - Life Sciences - 02.02.2024
Great success for the University of Tübingen in the excellence competition
Great success for the University of Tübingen in the excellence competition

Health - Environment - 02.02.2024
Leipzig University clears first hurdle in excellence competition: Invitation to submit two full
Leipzig University clears first hurdle in excellence competition: Invitation to submit two full

Health - Chemistry - 02.02.2024
Early departure from the Excellence Strategy competition

Innovation - Health - 01.02.2024
TUM in the running with three new Cluster of Excellence proposals
TUM in the running with three new Cluster of Excellence proposals

Life Sciences - Health - 01.02.2024
Research into evolution: four questions, four viewpoints
Research into evolution: four questions, four viewpoints
Scientists provide insights Did Charles Darwin invent the term "evolution" The clear answer is no. Charles Darwin didn't invent the concept of evolution, and he himself rarely used the word. Nevertheless, the British naturalist is seen - rightly - as the creator of the theory of evolution, which explains to us the 'tribal' development of biological species: phylogenesis.

Health - Physics - 31.01.2024
Cooperation with Siemens' Healthineers for New Medical Imaging
Cooperation with Siemens’ Healthineers for New Medical Imaging
How do immune cells move in infectious regions of the body? And how do newly developed agents reach places, for example, where they can fight tumors? X-ray fluorescence imaging, developed further at Universität Hamburg, provides new insight into these questions. Now a team at Universität Hamburg wants to improve access to this technology in cooperation with Siemens- Healthineers and TU Berlin.

Health - 31.01.2024
'We Want to Know'-- Science and Scholarship in Hamburg's Schools
’We Want to Know’-- Science and Scholarship in Hamburg’s Schools

Health - Pharmacology - 26.01.2024
Obesity in children: A problem far bigger than a person's waistline
Obesity in children: A problem far bigger than a person’s waistline
News from When it comes to modern diseases, paediatrician Professor Antje Körner believes that there is too great a focus on adults and not enough on children and adolescents.

Health - Innovation - 26.01.2024
TUM School of Medicine and Health opened
TUM School of Medicine and Health opened

Life Sciences - Health - 24.01.2024
How HIV smuggles its genetic material into the cell nucleus
How HIV smuggles its genetic material into the cell nucleus
Around one million individuals worldwide become infected with HIV, the virus that causes Aids, each year.

Health - Microtechnics - 23.01.2024
TUM receives funding for medical robotics
TUM receives funding for medical robotics

Pharmacology - Health - 22.01.2024
Researching a new treatment option for severe blood disorders of the bone marrow
Researching a new treatment option for severe blood disorders of the bone marrow
When people develop myelodysplastic neoplasms (MDS), the healthy maturation of blood cells is impaired.

Life Sciences - Health - 18.01.2024
With the second grant from the lab into the application
With the second grant from the lab into the application

Health - Pharmacology - 18.01.2024
Reducing the Side Effects of Chemotherapy
Reducing the Side Effects of Chemotherapy
Johannes Karges develops anti-cancer agents that work in a targeted manner, rather than adversely affecting the entire body.

Health - 17.01.2024
MHH Transplant Center transplants more organs than in the previous year
MHH Transplant Center transplants more organs than in the previous year

Health - Pharmacology - 16.01.2024
Practice-changing study on bone marrow cancer therapy
A team led by Würzburg hematologist Hermann Einsele has defined a new first-line therapy for bone marrow cancer.

Health - Research Management - 15.01.2024
Funding for young researchers in reproductive medicine
Funding for young researchers in reproductive medicine

Media - Health - 10.01.2024
Lecture: Why Critical Reporting about Science is so Important

Health - Innovation - 09.01.2024
Improving the Prognosis of People with Cardiac Insufficiency
Scientists from Heidelberg and Mainz are collaborating in a joint research project to improve the frequently difficult prognosis of disease progression and hence the treatment options for people with cardiac insufficiency.

Health - Pharmacology - 09.01.2024
Prepared for the next virus pandemic
Prepared for the next virus pandemic
In collaboration with 12 partners from 6 countries, Jena University Hospital is establishing the Antivirus Pandemic Preparedness EuropeAn pLatform (APPEAL), a European research initiative aimed at enhancing preparedness for future pandemics.

Health - Research Management - 03.01.2024
Outstanding Placings for Universität Heidelberg

Health - Environment - 02.01.2024
10 January: Panel discussion to kick off the Scientific Year 2024 at TU Ilmenau

History / Archeology - Health - 02.01.2024
Mummies under the magnifying glass
Mummies under the magnifying glass
Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany have carried out the first comprehensive analysis of some 20 mummy fragments from collections in the University's archives and have presented their findings in "Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology".

Life Sciences - Health - 22.12.2023
Stem cell Noah's Ark
Stem cell Noah’s Ark
Artificial transcription factor reprograms cells of human and different animal species with high efficiency After the discovery of the reprogramming of somatic cells using transcription factors in 2006, induced pluripotent stem cell lines have so far been produced for only a few animal species.

Health - Life Sciences - 20.12.2023
EU funds project to develop new diagnostics for pandemic preparedness

Health - 20.12.2023
Traveling for women's health
Traveling for women’s health
On the road with a physician team in Ghana Six physicians, one goal: A team from the university hospital TUM Klinikum rechts der Isar (MRI) wants to use modern surgical techniques to help improve women's health in the West-African nation of Ghana.

Health - Research Management - 20.12.2023
ERC Grant for Heidelberg Infection Researcher

Health - Life Sciences - 20.12.2023
Review: Life in the space-time continuum. All about biological clocks in time and off the beat
Review: Life in the space-time continuum. All about biological clocks in time and off the beat

Health - Event - 18.12.2023
DAAD Prize for Heidelberg Medical Student

Health - 12.12.2023
DFG Funding for Immunology Research in Würzburg
DFG Funding for Immunology Research in Würzburg

Innovation - Health - 08.12.2023
IENA 2023 inventors’ fair: Flood of medals for scientists from TU Ilmenau
At the international trade fair "Ideas - Inventions - Innovations" iENA 2023 in Nuremberg, scientists from TU Ilmenau did extremely well in the awards for the best inventions: they received three gold, four silver and two bronze medals.

Innovation - Health - 08.12.2023
Jens Haueisen from TU Ilmenau admitted to the National Academy of Science and Engineering
Jens Haueisen from TU Ilmenau admitted to the National Academy of Science and Engineering

Health - Life Sciences - 08.12.2023
Utilizing the tumor's appetite for sugar
Utilizing the tumor’s appetite for sugar
Growth mechanism in T cell lymphomas decoded A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has decoded the factor that makes T cell lymphomas grow comparatively rapidly: A missing "emergency s

Campus - Health - 05.12.2023
University of Bonn management extends partnership agreement with University of Melbourne
University of Bonn management extends partnership agreement with University of Melbourne

Media - Health - 29.11.2023
Making the Case for Critical Journalism

Physics - Health - 29.11.2023
Success for 2 Collaborative Research Centers at Universität Hamburg
Success for 2 Collaborative Research Centers at Universität Hamburg
Höhere Strukturen, Modulräume und Integrabilität-this is the title of a new collaborative research center at Universität Hamburg.

Health - Pharmacology - 27.11.2023
New therapeutic approach for prurigo nodularis
New therapeutic approach for prurigo nodularis

Health - Pharmacology - 24.11.2023
High-performance Oncological Medicine Made in Germany

Life Sciences - Health - 24.11.2023
DFG approves new Collaborative Research Centre 'Inhibitory neurons: shaping the cortical code (INCODE)'
DFG approves new Collaborative Research Centre ’Inhibitory neurons: shaping the cortical code (INCODE)’

Health - Mathematics - 23.11.2023
University of Bonn Receives Three ERC Consolidator Grants
University of Bonn Receives Three ERC Consolidator Grants

Health - Event - 22.11.2023
Virologist Petr Chlanda Receives Chica and Heinz Schaller Research Award

Health - Life Sciences - 22.11.2023
Funding for Würzburg Biophysicist
Funding for Würzburg Biophysicist

Health - 21.11.2023
Sugar tax could save as much as 16 billion euros
Sugar tax could save as much as 16 billion euros
Study: Soft drink taxation is relevant way of preventing diseases such as diabetes A simulation study conducted by a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) demonstrates that a soft drink tax in Germany would have significant positive effects.