Research

Prof. Dr. Dirk Guldi from FAU and scientists from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU) have presented a new chemical reaction with promising applications in investigating and manufacturing active substances.

Nationwide priority programme researches development of bone metastases

Is there anything new we can learn about steel? Peter Felfer, junior professor at the Chair of General Materials Science is often asked this question whenever he talks about steel, an area of research which he is particularly enthusiastic about. ‘Steel is of such importance that every development of this material has an enormous impact on how sustainable our society can be,’ explains Felfer.

Immunologists at FAU have demonstrated that ILC2, a group of rare lymphoid cells, play a key role in the development of inflammatory arthritis. The findings could form the basis for new methods of treating rheumatoid arthritis.

The 8th International Summer School for Neuropathology and Epilepsy Surgery is a standard fixture in the training offered by the International League against Epilepsy and has been organised several times by the Institute of Neuropathology in Erlangen.

The extinction of the dinosaurs was not the first clear indication that changes in the environment and the climate have considerable effects on the biosphere. Smaller organisms, for example belemnites, similar to the squid of today, reacted to climate change in a somewhat less spectacular manner – namely by decreasing in size.

Since May 2018, Prof. Ballarre has been a guest researcher at the Institute of Biomaterials lead by Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Aldo R. Boccaccini at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at FAU. Her stay is supported by the Georg Forster Research Fellowship for experienced researchers of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Together with researchers from FAU, Prof. Ballarre will further he research on bioactive and antibacterial hybrid coatings for complex geometry surgical orthopedic and dental implants.

'Traffic jams' can also occur in the brain and they can be damaging. Researchers at FAU have been able to prove that disrupted transportation routes in nerve cells could be a significant cause of Parkinson's disease.

An international astronomical search has now been successful as a team of researchers has located a cosmic source of energy-rich neutrinos for the first time. The search began after a single high-energy neutrino was detected by the IceCube neutrino telescope in ice in the Antarctic on 22 September 2017.

Parkinson's disease, formerly also referred to as shaking palsy, is one of the most frequent disorders affecting movement and the nervous system. Medical researchers at FAU have come across a possible cause of the disease – in the patients' immune system.