Research

After going through a highly competitive selection process, researcher Prof. Dr. Stefan Uderhardt has been successful in his bid for project funding from the European Research Council (ERC). Uderhardt, who works at Department of Medicine 3 at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, has been awarded a total of approximately 1.5 million euros for his project over the next five years.

Many of the fossils found worldwide are in the possession of natural history museums in the West or kept in private collections. The data collected about fossil finds and excavations are also predominantly located in richer countries. This is the subject of criticism from a research team led by Nussaibah Raja-Schoob, a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Palaeobiology at FAU.

Strengthening the immune response at the location where the virus enters the body. A team led by Prof. Dr. Klaus Überla and Prof. Dr. Matthias Tenbusch at the Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology at FAU is currently conducting research into a vaccine that is administered as a nose or mouth spray and forms local antibodies in the mucous membranes. The project has received 280,000 euros of further funding.

A new study also confirms lower effectiveness of vaccines and decreasing immunity among those who have recovered from the disease, but the booster vaccine helps.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun from the Institute of Geography at FAU observes, measures and researches glaciers, ice shelves, mountain ranges and polar regions. For his latest round of measurements, he travelled to South Patagonia and took to the skies in the research aircraft Polar 5.

On Friday 10 December 2021, Bavarian State Minister of Science and the Arts Bernd Sibler visited Universitätsklinikum Erlangen at FAU and discussed the current research efforts for overcoming the Covid-19 pandemic with experts at the hospital.

As IBM (International Business Machines Cooperation) Fellow, Head of Science & Technology and Lead of IBM Research Quantum Europe at IBM Research, she is based in Switzerland and one of her many projects involves developing a new generation of computer processors: Dr. Heike Riel. In our interview, the FAU-Alumna gives an insight into her work for IBM and talks about her lasting connections to FAU.

In a large study, researchers have succeeded in showing a significant correlation between the CMV antibody status of organ donors and reduced long-term survival after a heart transplantation.

In a new study conducted by the Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie and led by Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, patients who had no protection against an infection after failing to develop an immune response to Covid-19 after two vaccinations were given a third vaccination. The results indicated that these individuals developed a very good level of protection after receiving their third vaccine.

Geologists from FAU and the University of Vigo have proven that where fossils are found is decisive when reconstructing the planet’s climate. Taking samples from certain latitudes may blur results when determining average global temperatures.