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Guests from all over the world enrich research and teaching at FAU Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) welcomes six new Humboldt scholars from different corners of the globe. Alexander von Humboldt grants are only awarded to highly qualified research scientists who are chosen by...

Infection biologists at FAU discover therapeutic potential in parasitic worms Erlangen infection biologists have gained a new insight into how our body can be better protected from allergies and autoimmune responses: a working group headed up by David Vöhringer, Professor of Infection Resistance ...

Bavarian Research Foundation to fund three projects conducted by FAU researchers Three research projects involving research scientists from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are to receive a total of around €1.4 million in funding from the Bavarian Research Foundation. One suc...

FAU research group examines how the formation of blood vessels can be controlled Over the next two years, a team of research scientists headed up by Prof. Dr. Raymund E. Horch, director of the University Hospital’s Plastic and Hand Surgery Clinic at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnbe...

Motor recycling project MORE aims to prevent supply shortfalls Prof. Dr. Jörg Franke and his team from the Institute for Automated Manufacturing and Production Engineering (FAPS) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are involved in the MORE (Motor recycling) project – a projec...

Erlangen research scientists develop new treatment approach Although more likely to affect smokers, lung cancer can also strike non-smokers and is in fact the most common form of cancer in the world, and a disease which almost always costs a person their life. Although methods of treatment have i...

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) will close over the festive period for energy saving purposes, from 24 December up to and including 8 January. The university’s student administration services such as the Student Advisory Service and the Registrar’s Office will remain closed d...

FAU success in national competition for higher-quality teaching Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has reason to celebrate: between 2012 and 2016 the university is to receive around €11.5 million in federal funding to improve teaching quality. The German Federal Ministry for Ed...

Festive soirée in the Nuremberg Meistersingerhalle Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), in association with the Ohm-University of Applied Sciences, the Academy of Fine Arts, the Evangelical University of Applied Sciences and the Nuremberg College of Music, cordially invites all ...

FAU researchers rank among the most-cited academics in Germany The work carried out by scientists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) enjoys great recognition within the international research community. Such is the conclusion of the current Taiwan Performance Ranking of Scie...