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Around 90 percent of the population are infected with herpes viruses, often without knowing and mostly without consequences. However, infection with a herpes virus can be life-threatening for babies or people with a weakened immune system. Suitable medication has not yet been developed for treating these patients. A research group at FAU led by Dr. Florian Full wants to change this with a promising new therapy.

Anja Boßerhoff, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at FAU was appointed as the Chair of the Scientific Commission during the winter session of the German Council of Science and Humanities. In her new role, she will advise the federal and state governments on developments in science, humanities and higher education.

FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger discusses artificial intelligence and its potential to revolutionise medicine and our healthcare systems with his guest Prof. Dr. Andreas Maier, head of the Pattern Recognition Lab at FAU.

You can find updated information about on-campus examinations on all FAU channels. If you have any question or problems, please contact your lecturers or write an e-mail to corona-informationen@fau.de.

The Research Data and Research Information Working Group (AGFD) supports researchers at FAU with collecting and storing their research data.

About 20 month ago, San José State University and FAU embarked on an entrepreneurial collaboration leveraging the immense research capabilities of FAU and SJSU's powerful and robust Silicon Valley ecosystem. What began as a robust exchange of knowledge and ideas has grown into much more – the commercialization of intellectual property, the formation and incubation of new companies and the book "One And One Equals Eleven".

Dr. Michaela Kramer, media education specialist at FAU, has investigated the influence smartphone photography and posting images on social media has on shaping young people’s sense of identity. She has drawn up a typology describing the different ways young people can present themselves via photos and what that says about their developing personalities.

Family physicians, or GP’s, are the first port of call for questions concerning health or illness. They therefore need information sources which cover various medical fields whilst still being suitable for use in individual cases. A team of researchers at FAU have investigated how GP’s can access medical information and what they look for in digital material.

Children, young people and media is a topic which sparks heated debate. Should children steer clear altogether of televisions, computers or smartphones? Is it true that young people are not interested in books? These are just some examples of the questions investigated by researchers from the Institute of Book Studies at FAU. The researchers discovered one crucial aspect: the key to using both analogue and digital media is literacy.

Students studying computer science and medical engineering have set up technical support for schools in Erlangen. Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Maier, Chair of Computer Science 15 at FAU, the team of volunteers provides support to teachers, parents and children. The team is looking for more volunteers.