Research

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’

FAU researchers have investigated the formation of rot in grapes and have shown that certain kinds of fungi can generate not only various musty-mouldy aromas but also fruity and floral odours in wine.

Standard chemotherapeutic agents such as temozolomide often have no effect on glioblastomas, which are a type of malignant brain tumour. A team of researchers at FAU has therefore been investigating the mechanism which prevents the medication from working and ways of deactivating this.

The transition from regional geography to a technical discipline with an emphasis on digitalisation: in a new project, researchers are currently examining the history of geography in the 1960s and 1970s.