Research

Melanoma and liver cancer are among the types of cancer which are most likely to be fatal in the Western world. Three research groups at FAU have now jointly discovered a mechanism which is highly significant for future treatment strategies.

Marta Caballero was born in Santiago de Chile, Chile. Until 2012, she studied Physics Engineering at the University of Santiago, Chile (Universidad de Santiago de Chile, USACH) where she specialised on environmental and air quality measurements. In March 2016, Marta Caballero was awarded a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship for doctoral research for her PhD project “Role of the clouds on the Energy Balance on the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet” at the Institute for Geography at FAU.

Muhammad Ali was born in Indonesia. From 2014 until 217, Muhammad Ali was a student of the Master of Science in Chemistry at FAU. Since June 2017 he is working on his PhD on constructing nanoparticle networks by using supramolecular interactions at the Chair for Organic Chemistry II at FAU. Besides his love for chemistry, he also enjoys singing, cooking and travelling.

Everyone knows what happens if you drop a coffee cup – it usually shatters into several pieces. Ideally, we just smile and say 'break a thing, mend your luck'. However, the consequences of material fracture if it occurs in aeroplanes, ships or trains are far more serious and can cost lives, such as ...

Plasticity at the fingertips: Scientists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nürnberg (FAU) directly control dislocations.

FAU researchers develop procedure for touch-free monitoring of heart sounds.

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.