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FAU has maintained its position as one of the best 200 universities worldwide. It ranks 180th in the recently published Academic Ranking of World Universities, better known as the Shanghai Ranking.

In future, researchers in Erlangen will take into account a little-noted factor in the development of diseases: physics.

‘Teams of international students prepare both prosecution and defence for a fictional case,’ Christoph Safferling, Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, International Criminal Law and Public International Law at FAU, explains what happens during a moot court.

Neuroscientists at FAU have joined forces with human geneticists at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg to develop a new approach to the treatment of rare genetic conditions such as Noonan syndrome.

Non-toxic, lubricant-infused coatings deter mussels and prevent their attachment by disrupting their mechanosensory and adhesive systems.

FAU researchers and their colleagues at the University of Bayreuth investigated whether an artificial silk protein developed in the laboratory could be suitable for engineering cardiac tissue.

A group of researchers at FAU and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen is investigating how patient safety, patient awareness and patient well-being can be improved when patients start a course of treatment with new, orally administered anti-cancer agents.

Heated arguments and disputes - psychologists at FAU have demonstrated scientifically that men react differently to women and people in groups differently to individuals in competitive situations.

Physicists from FAU and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY, Hamburg) have come up with a method that could significantly improve the quality of X-ray images in comparison to conventional methods.

To differentiate friend from foe and to combat attacks by pathogens the immune system needs numerous messenger substances. An international research association is currently investigating these messenger substances and the interactions between them at a molecular level.