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14NOV 2024
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Outstanding Researcher Honored
Prof. Dr. Steffen Jung Receives the Renowned Jakob Herz Prize 2024 In a festive ceremony on Friday, November 8, 2024, the Jakob Herz Prize was awarded to Prof. Dr. Steffen Jung, Henry H. Drake Professor of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. The award, presented for the eighth time, recognizes his […]
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08JUL 2024
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World’s first CAR-T cell therapy for a child with lupus
“One year after the treatment, I feel as good as I did before my diagnosis, except for a few colds,” says Uresa A. today. In June 2023, Uresa (who was 15 years old at the time) received CAR-T cells at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen. The treatment was the last resort to slow down systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), […]
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08JUL 2024
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Radiotherapy vs. the immune system
As part of our innate immune system, the complement system plays a role in destroying tumor cells. Paradoxically however, an activated complement system can also also promote the growth and formation of metastases in certain types of tumors such as sarcomas. How radiotherapy influences the complement system is now the subject of research being carried […]
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27JUN 2024
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FAU researchers develop an alternative to pacemakers
A heart attack is a life-threatening condition, with patients remaining at risk of premature death long after the actual attack: 50 to 60 percent of patients die subsequently as a result of sudden cardiac death, triggered by cardiac arrhythmia. The most effective treatment currently available – a pacemaker – stops cardiac arrhythmias. However, it cannot […]
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02MAY 2024
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FAU team develops new approach for treating autoimmune diseases
How a “date” between immune cells makes rheumatism disappear Dates don’t always work out the way you would like. This is the premise on which scientists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have developed a new approach towards treating autoimmune diseases. They brought two types of immune cells, B cells and T cells, together at one table […]
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18APR 2024
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FAU team receives funding for research into flavivirus vaccine
Tracking down the secret behind the successful yellow fever vaccine Yellow fever, dengue fever, tick-borne encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis and other infectious diseases, some of them dangerous, are triggered by pathogens from the flavivirus family. A very effective vaccine is available for yellow fever that provides protection lasting several decades. The protection provided by vaccines against […]Tracking down the secret behind the successful yellow fever vaccine Yellow fever, dengue fever, tick-borne encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis and other infectious diseases, some of them dangerous, are triggered by pathogens from the flavivirus family. A very effective vaccine is available for yellow fever that provides protection lasting several decades. The protection provided by vaccines against […]
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