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For just over twenty years now, physicians have observed a significant rise in chronic kidney disease in countries on the Equator. FAU scientist are now supporting researches in Sri Lanka in investigating the developments.

The new Officer for the Prevention of Antisemitism Prof. Dr. Lutz Edzard believes that assessing original sources and communicating directly with everyone involved in their original language is vitally important.

Meet scientist and dentist Prof. Dr. Kerstin Galler. In episode 11 of A cup with the President, Prof. Dr. Hornegger visits her at the Dental Clinic 1 to learn more about her research.

For the campaign #FAUrespekt against discrimination and sexual harassment organized by the Office for Gender and Diversity at FAU, students of the Master's program “Theater - Research - Mediation” have developed a wish wall. These wishes were now handed over to FAU president Joachim Hornegger.

Two suggestions of the Working Group for Teaching and Studies (Uni-LuSt) of the Students' Representatives have been adopted by the Senate: no compulsory registration for resit examinations and a fourth attempt after three failed examination.

Each semester, FAU president Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger visits professors who have just recently joined FAU. In this episode, FAU President Joachim Hornegger visits the office of Prof. Dr. Seung Hee Yang, developer of intelligent voice assistance systems.

A research team led by PD Dr. Ulrich Rother from Erlangen University Hospital is currently developing a new diagnostic procedure for improved and gentler treatment of peripheral arterial occlusive disease, which mainly affects older people.

Immune cells, in particular T cells, must be trained to recognize cancer cells and target them specifically. A team led by FAU physicist Prof. Dr. Julio Vera-González is working together with researchers from Erlangen, Amsterdam and Rostock to investigate how this can succeed.

A treatment for metastatic cancer – researchers at FAU, the University of Innsbruck, the MIT and Universität Würzburg have now come a major step closer to this ambitious goal.

FAU researcher Ludwig Nützel combines the traditional card game of Schafkopf and quantum physics. He has now spiced the game up a little with his new version that introduces elements from the field of quantum physics into the trick-taking game.