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On Thursday September 14, 2023 decision-makers from business, industry and research are set to meet once again in Erlangen for the “Global Market Leaders Innovation Day” run by the business journal WirtschaftsWoche. This year the focus is on energy and sustainability.

A large turnout to congratulate FAU immunologist Georg Schett on winning the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. FAU Vice President Prof. Dr. Georg Schett was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements.

FAU’s Hightech Campus continues to grow and will now include an additional 105,000 square meters of floor space from the Siemens campus in south Erlangen. The key for the building has now been symbolically handed over to FAU in the presence of Bavarian Minister President Dr. Markus Söder, Siemens CEO Dr. Roland Busch, and State Ministers Markus Blume and Joachim Herrmann.

A robot performing surgery on humans. What sounds like science fiction could provide support to physicians in the operating room in future. The project is set to receive around 2 million euros of funding from the Bavarian Research Foundation because of its innovative approach. 

Volunteering in your free time is a good thing: It can strengthen the team spirit in a club, is beneficial to the environment and provides support to older people. A team of researchers at FAU and the digiDEM Bayern Digital Dementia Register has now discovered that voluntary work can have a positive effect on the cognitive abilities of the volunteers themselves.

What only existed on drawings up to now is soon set to become reality. “We expect to begin building work this year and are already looking forward to moving into the building at the end of 2025,” said Prof. Dr. Markus F. Neurath, spokesperson of Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie (DZI).

Siemens announced that it intends to spend half of its two billion euro investment program in Germany. Siemens stated that the investment will establish Erlangen as a center for the technology of the “industrial metaverse”, where this technology supports the connection between the physical and digital world.

Budget committee of the Bavarian state parliament has approved construction plans for the new Technical Chemistry building at FAU. Construction work of the new high-tech building can therefore begin. A total of 140 million euros is being invested in the new building.

Headaches, high blood pressure or digestive problems can be signs of many different medical conditions. Treatment is often aimed at alleviating symptoms. This is something experts at FAU hope to change.

Each semester, FAU president Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger sets out to visit professors who have just recently joined FAU. At the Chair for Neurology he meets up with Heisenberg professor Veith Rothhammer.