Research

The aim of chemotherapy is the selective destruction of cancer cells in the body of the patient. Researchers at FAU have now managed to gain more detailed insights into the effects of chemotherapeutic agents on healthy neurons.

The loss of heart muscle cells is the main cause of impaired cardiac function. While investigating factors involved in human cardiomyocyte proliferation, researchers at FAU discovered a molecule which activates a specific receptor in the cell nucleus.

A team at FAU has managed to selectively influence the properties of hybrid systems consisting of carbon nanostructures and a dye.

Physicists at FAU and Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU) have accomplished a quantum leap in light research. They have managed to capture the behaviour of extremely short laser pulses during focusing by means of very high spatial and temporal resolution.

In view of climate change and the needs of the energy reform, it has become important to significantly increase the efficiency of organic solar cells. Physicists and chemists at FAU collaborating in an international joint project have now successfully described a mechanism with which it may be possible to achieve this.

The particularly aggressive brain tumours known as glioblastomas often prove to be resistant to chemotherapy. The team of physicians headed by Nicolai Savaskan of the Chair for Neurosurgery at FAU has now identified a key gene that could be responsible for this.

Fundamental new insights into the functioning of the immune system and a new approach to treating autoimmune diseases: these are among the achievements of the transregional collaborative research centre TRR130 ‘B-cells: Immunity and Autoimmunity’.

Nine teams of FAU researchers and international peers will forge new ideas together on the sailing ship ‘Thor Heyerdahl’

Prof. Dr Karsten Meyer of the Chair of Inorganic and General Chemistry at FAU wins the 2017 Ludwig Mond Award of the British Royal Society of Chemistry in recognition of his research achievements.

FAU physicists have managed to make a major contribution that will aid research into avalanches, sand storms and cosmic dust clouds.