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The DFG is providing funding for one new collaborative research center/transregio (CFC/TRR) and for a further funding period for a second. For both projects, a total of 23.5 million euros will be provided to FAU over the next four years.

Two researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council. The ERC Consolidator Grant entails two million euros in funding over a funding period of five years.

Once again, FAU has successfully demonstrated its strength in innovation and research. In the current funding round, the University has succeeded in winning not one, but two more Humboldt professorships: Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg and Prof. Dr. Eva Pils.

This year, the Federal President’s prize for technology and innovation has been awarded to a team from Erlangen. Prof. Dr. Michael Uder and his two team colleagues from Siemens Healthineers have been awarded the German Future Prize 2023.

On October 13, 2023 in Munich, the HOCHSPRUNG Award was presented to startup projects from Bavarian universities. This year, the award was presented to startups who make a contribution to solving the challenges posed by the climate and energy crises. Startups from FAU won the second and one of the third prizes.

The Highly Cited Researchers List of 2023 names the 7,127 most influential researchers across the globe. With a total of 336 researchers included in the list, Germany is ranked number 4.

Malaria is one of the most widespread and deadly infectious diseases worldwide. New compounds are continuously required due to the risk of malaria parasites becoming resistant to the medicines currently used. A team of researchers at FAU led by Prof. Dr. Svetlana B. Tsogoeva has now combined the anti-malaria drug artemisinin with coumarin, which, like artemisinin, is also found in plants, and developed an auto-fluorescent compound from both bioactive substances.

Federal President Steinmeier visited Erlangen as part of the series of events entitled “Workshop for change”. In the innovation hub Medical Valley Center Erlangen, five teams from the healthcare sector presented their projects, including “GraspAgain”, a start-up initiated by a research team at FAU.

Till Martini has been fascinated by rowing since he was just 13 years old, and has now made it into the German men’s eight team as the coxswain. At the World University Games in Chengdu, China, he won silver with his team.

Excellence in academia relies on team work said FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger during the festivities celebrating the University’s 280th anniversary. FAU celebrated the sense of community among all its members as one of the keys to its success on November 4 in the Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg.