Research

The HTLV-1 virus triggers aggressive forms of leukemia or an incurable spinal cord disease that leads to paralysis: A group of researchers from TU Dresden, the company PROVIREX Genome Editing Therapies and FAU have now provided initial proof of concept for a potential therapeutic approach.

Prof. Dr. Meinard Müller wants to decipher complex features and hidden relationships in music using artificial intelligence. To expand the freedom and scope of his work, the German Research Foundation (DFG) is providing funding of 1.25 million euros as part of the Reinhart Koselleck Program.

Memory training, exercises to improve brain fitness, early detection tests for dementia or tools to help carers organize their daily schedule: The range of apps for people with dementia and their care-giving relatives is very wide. A team of researchers at FAU and the Bavarian Digital Dementia Register has now evaluated the scientific evidence and quality for users of German language apps for the first time and has come to two sobering conclusions.

FAU has set up a new research center in order to make the development of bioactive compounds even more efficient. In this center, teams of researchers from the areas of pharmaceutical science, food chemistry and pharmacology at FAU and departments at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen combine their research activities in a unique manner.

“With my research, I hope to contribute to inventing innovative and more energy-efficient electronic devices and to drive forward fundamental research into the synthesis and properties of semi-conducting nitrides,” summarizes Dr. Saskia Schimmel.

Metastasis is a particularly insidious threat for cancer patients. FAU medical expert Prof. Dr. Thomas Brabletz hopes to gain a better understanding of tumor cells and metastasis. He has received 1.25 million euros in funding from the DFG for this purpose.

Today, the Academic Freedom Index (AFI) project presents its Update 2023, providing an overview of the state of academic freedom in 179 countries. The decline in academic freedom affects over 50% of the world's population, approximately 4 billion people.

What sounds like science fiction could soon become a reality: Photovoltaic systems that are so thin and light that they can float and fly. In an interview, Prof. Dr. Christoph Brabec explains what these “emerging photovoltaics (e-PV)” are made of and why they are the future of photovoltaic systems.

With the EU project IMMEDIATE, an international team of researchers now hopes to pinpoint the key factors for chronic inflammation and develop individual prevention strategies using AI.

What does the ideal microbiome look like? And what influence do quintillions of invisible organisms have on human health and disease? This is to be the focus of a new institute at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen: the Department of Microbiome Research led by Prof. Dr. Stephan P. Rosshart.