Research

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...

FAU astrophysicists get involved in the Helmholtz Alliance Over the next five years the Helmholz Association is to provide around ten million euros in funding for a new Helmholz Alliance in the field of astroparticle physics. Scientists belonging to the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (...

FAU receives €10.6 million for research into carbon for high-performance applications and resilient alloys for use in the energy industry Scientists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are celebrating a major success: Erlangen is to become home to two of the eight Collaborati...

Professor Matthias Warstat receives European research award With a prestigious award and funding amounting to €2.3m, Prof. Dr. Matthias Warstat, head of the Institute for Theatre and Media Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has reason to be pleased. The theatre pro...

DFG backs new centre for research into chronic inflammatory bowel disease The German Research Foundation (DFG) is supporting the CEDER research association project “Molecular pathogenesis and the optimised treatment of chronic inflammatory bowel disease” at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erl...

International research team investigates why we get cold The mornings have turned really cold again causing our bodies to react – numb fingers and toes, streaming eyes and red, running noses are par for the course. These localised responses are triggered by cold sensors. In collaboration with sci...

The Paul Ehrlich Institute and the town of Langen honour Professor David Vöhringer On Friday 18 November 2011, Prof. Dr. David Vöhringer (41), Professor of Infection Resistance and Tolerance at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and head of the Infection Biology Department at...

FAU researchers discover new treatment alternatives Chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is not only painful and extremely onerous for sufferers, but also poses a major risk to health – the final outcome in many cases being a cancer diagnosis. Research scientists from Friedrich-Alexander-Univer...