Research

The patient perspective is important in all medical research, and particularly in drug development. This is reflected in the European research initiative PREFER in which a research group at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen is involved.

How did Europe become what it is today? And what role did the institution of the Church play? FAU historians are working to prepare all papal correspondence in the project ‘Regesta Pontificum Romanorum’.

A combination of experiments and theory has enabled physicists to understand the diffusion of individual atoms in periodic systems for the first time.

A study shows a new, surprising role played by blood vessels: under certain conditions they can inhibit tumour growth.

Researchers at FAU working together with colleagues from Freie Universität Berlin have discovered a new molecule: the iron compound in the rare oxidation state +4 belongs to the ferrocenes and is exceptionally difficult to synthesise.

Baggers, Gwerch, Broudwoschd – Franconia dialects are very different from High German. Various dialects of German are the subject of the Bayerisch-österreichische Dialektologentagung (Conference on Bavarian-Austrian Dialectology) which will be held at the end of September.

FAU has received 2.5 million euros in funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for five collaborative projects on neutron and X-ray radiation research.

A team of FAU researchers led by Nicola Gasparini, a doctoral candidate at the University, has made an important step towards creating more efficient solar cells.

There is currently no cure for patients with HIV or the T-cell leukaemia virus. Possible approaches to finding cures for these viruses is one of the topics of an international basic research conference on retrovirology in Erlangen.

The new Center for Management, Technology and Society (CMTS) supports and co-ordinates work on developing practical solutions through interdisciplinary research.