What effects does severe obesity have on the lungs? A research team led by Prof. Dr. Veronika Lukacs-Kornek from the ‘ImmunoSensation2’ Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bonn and the Institute for Molecular Medicine and Experimental Immunology (IMMEI) at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) investigated this question. The results suggest that obesity causes the lungs to age faster. The findings have been published in the journal ‘Cell Reports’.

After four years spent in lecture halls and delivery rooms, members of the first class to graduate from the new dual bachelor’s degree program in Midwifery were honored by the University of Bonn Faculty of Medicine on Friday, September 26, 2025 in a ceremony held at the teaching facility of the University Hospital Bonn (UKB).

The University of Bonn is continuously expanding its research infrastructure – thereby creating the foundation for the success of its researchers. Under the umbrella of the Bonn Technology Campus (BTC), 14 core facilities are now available for university-wide use, combining cutting-edge technologies, specialized expertise, and comprehensive services. They provide all researchers at the university with access to instruments and methods that would often be inaccessible or difficult to obtain for individual research groups. In doing so, the University of Excellence creates the conditions necessary to put research ideas into practice at the highest level.

On August 29, the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) held its largest summer festival to date. The Vice Dean’s Office for Sustainability, together with ukb green, was once again represented with an information booth dedicated to the topic of sustainability.

Too much fat can be unhealthy: how fat cells, so-called adipocytes, develop, is crucial for the function of the fat tissue. That is why a team led by researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn investigated the influence of primary cilia dysfunction on adipocyte precursor cells in a mouse model. They found that overactivation of the Hedgehog signaling pathway causes abnormal development into connective tissue-like cells instead of white fat cells. Their findings have now been published in The EMBO Journal.

Emergencies, night shifts, high-pressure decision-making ... it takes more than specialized knowledge to work in medicine. That’s why the University of Bonn Faculty of Medicine offers courses specifically designed to help students become more mentally resilient, in cooperation with Jung-Stilling Siegen Hospital—a protestant social services clinic. Extreme athlete Joey Kelly returned as one of this year’s special course participants at University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and in Siegen, who did a night hike with outdoor sleeping together with students. 

A research team from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn, and the Medical Center – University of Freiburg has gained new insights into the brain processes involved in encoding and retrieving new memory content. The study is based on measurements of individual nerve cells in people with epilepsy and shows how they follow an internal rhythm. The work has now been published in the journal Nature Communications.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is designed to make our health system even more efficient. Yet cyberattacks are capable not only of jeopardizing patient safety but also impairing medical devices and hindering the work of emergency responders. With the “SecureNeuroAI” project, researchers from the University of Bonn, University Hospital Bonn and FIZ Karlsruhe – the Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure are aiming to develop secure, AI-powered methods for detecting medical emergencies in real time using the example of epileptic seizures, although their findings should be applicable to many other areas. The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) is providing almost €2.5 million in funding over a three-year period.