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The Language Service is responsible for translations into English at FAU of a wide range of texts and documents, mainly for the University Administration. It has also recently started translating a limited range of documents free of charge for staff at the faculties.

The Jung Foundation for Science and Research has awarded the young gastroenterologist Dr Sebastian Zundler from the Chair of Internal Medicine I at FAU the Ernst Jung Career Advancement Award for Medical Research 2019. He was been awarded the prize for his research project on the significance of intestinal tissue-resident memory T cells.

Whilst vaccines provide protection from diseases such as Ebola, there is an urgent need for therapeutic options once the infection has taken hold. FAU is carrying out research in this area together with partners such as Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Germany hopes to cooperate more closely with the Pacific Alliance. FAU has taken on a significant role in preparing the way.

Physics students at FAU won the German Physicists’ Tournament in 2018. They are now representing Germany at an international physics tournament. Here come the FAUltiere.

Digitalisation makes it possible for us to complete more work in the same amount of time. However, the increasing speed at which we receive information and tasks can also have a negative impact on the workforce. Researchers at FAU are investigating the requirements of today’s workplace in a research project.

In contrast to what was previously suspected, our bones have a network of thousands of veins and blood vessels. This discovery was made by biologists and medical researchers at FAU and Duisburg-Essen University.

ATHENA, a space observatory being developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) should make it possible to gain important information about how large structures of matter observed in the universe were formed and have evolved over time. FAU is supporting the project with special software for mathematical models.