Welcome to the Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn
We are 1 of 7 faculties of the University of Bonn and affiliated to the transdisciplinary research area Life and Health. We maintain extensive partnerships with institutions of the Helmholtz Association, the Max Planck Society, and national and international research associations in the life sciences.
We are committed to outstanding, nationally and internationally visible translational research from basic sciences to patient care, as well as to teaching and training students closely linked to science to become competent and empathetic physicians.
Both tasks are fulfilled in close cooperation with the University Hospital and with respect for our employees.
News
University of Bonn Secures Three Proof of Concept Grants
Three University of Bonn researchers have been awarded a Proof of Concept Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). Neuroscientist Professor Dominik Bach, chemist Assistant Professor Ala Bunescu and radiologist Professor Philipp Vollmuth (from the University Hospital Bonn) are each receiving €150,000 over a period of 18 months. This program helps researchers to take findings from their work and turn them into commercial products or services.
Focus on the Guardians of the Antibody Response
For the immune system to effectively combat pathogens, antibody responses must be precisely controlled. So-called follicular regulatory T cells (Tfr cells) play a key role in this process by limiting excessive immune responses and helping to maintain immune tolerance. Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn have now developed a robust laboratory method that allows Tfr cells to be generated from precursor cells and studied in a targeted manner. The results were recently published in the journal Cellular & Molecular Immunology.
When the map needs an update
Every time we move through a familiar environment, the hippocampus consults an internal map, a detailed spatial representation that is built up through repeated experience. But what happens when something unexpected occurs on a well-known route? Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn were able to demonstrate in a mouse model that the brain does not redraw its maps from scratch. Instead, it annotates them: preserving the underlying spatial layout while overlaying new information on top of the existing map. Their findings have now been published in the journal PNAS.
Smart Monitoring for People with Epilepsy
The PearNet project is developing special wearables—body-worn electronic devices—that give epilepsy patients advance warning of seizures and monitor and record them when they happen. The brainchild of researchers from the University Hospital Bonn and University of Bonn, it has now secured some €2.7 million in funding over three years via the GO-Bio next program run by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR). The money will go toward making further preparations for spinning off the project so that its set of wearables can be launched on the biotechnology market.
Events
Practical Tools for Strategic Innovation Management
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10:00 AM - 02:00 PM
This half-day workshop focuses on practical, directly applicable tools for strategic innovation management and strategy-led research & innovation (R&I) ...
Antrittsvorlesung Herr Dr. Neeraj Upadhyay
Hörsaal BMZ I ...
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Zu der öffentlichen Antrittsvorlesung "Targeted Ultrasound Treatment for Essential Tremor: Multimodal MRI Studies of Brain Reorganization" die Herr Dr. Neeraj ...
Antrittsvorlesung Herr Dr. med. Matthew Moussa Zidan
DZNE Hörsaal
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Zu der öffentlichen Antrittsvorlesung "From Skepticism to Standard of Care: Three Decades of Neurointervention in Acute Stroke" die Herr Dr. med. Matthew ...
Antrittsvorlesung Herr Dr. med. Nils Christian Lehnen
DZNE Hörsaal
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Zu der öffentlichen Antrittsvorlesung "Künstliche Intelligenz in der Neuroradiologie: Automatisierte Bildanalyse und Datenextraktion aus neuroradiologischen ...
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