Research

The particularly aggressive brain tumours known as glioblastomas often prove to be resistant to chemotherapy. The team of physicians headed by Nicolai Savaskan of the Chair for Neurosurgery at FAU has now identified a key gene that could be responsible for this.

Fundamental new insights into the functioning of the immune system and a new approach to treating autoimmune diseases: these are among the achievements of the transregional collaborative research centre TRR130 ‘B-cells: Immunity and Autoimmunity’.

Nine teams of FAU researchers and international peers will forge new ideas together on the sailing ship ‘Thor Heyerdahl’

Prof. Dr Karsten Meyer of the Chair of Inorganic and General Chemistry at FAU wins the 2017 Ludwig Mond Award of the British Royal Society of Chemistry in recognition of his research achievements.

FAU physicists have managed to make a major contribution that will aid research into avalanches, sand storms and cosmic dust clouds.

FAU researchers from the Chair of Endogenous Geodynamics decided to explore volcanism in the western Aegean up close and have just returned from an expedition on the research ship ‘Poseidon’.

For the third year in succession, FAU is ranked as the academic institution that has produced the most widely cited publications in Germany.

FAU researchers have investigated the formation of rot in grapes and have shown that certain kinds of fungi can generate not only various musty-mouldy aromas but also fruity and floral odours in wine.

Eleven German biobank sites are joining forces in the German Biobank Alliance, smoothing the way for a national and Europe-wide exchange of data and bio-samples. The Chair of Medical Informatics at FAU is one of the IT centres of expertise in the network.

Standard chemotherapeutic agents such as temozolomide often have no effect on glioblastomas, which are a type of malignant brain tumour. A team of researchers at FAU has therefore been investigating the mechanism which prevents the medication from working and ways of deactivating this.