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University President Paul Pauli has bid farewell to the long-standing directorate of the Siebold Collegium. He thanked them for their commitment and welcomed the successor trio.

The Science Slam is celebrating its 10th birthday. There will be two events to mark the anniversary: a classic slam on Friday, 7 November. Plus a best-of from ten years on Saturday, 8 November.

The Faculty of Human Sciences has awarded Dr Nina Döllinger the Beatrice Edgell Prize for her dissertation. The Matilda Prize for the best papers went to Dr Maria Pfeiffer and Nea Solander.

Since 1 October 2025 Ugur Uslu is Professor of Dermatological Oncology at JMU and Senior Physician in the Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology at Würzburg University Hospital.

Lectures for the winter semester 2025/26 start at the University of Würzburg on 13 October. At the annual press conference at the start of the semester, President Paul Pauli provided information on current topics from the university.

Markus Lau has recently been appointed Professor of New Testament at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. Even ancient curses can be a source of inspiration for his research.

An important personality from Franconia can be seen on the label of the new Bavarian museum wine: Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn, founder of the University of Würzburg.

Read about new appointments, job anniversaries, research sabbaticals and more.

A new study shows: Blocking the surface protein CD47 protects against graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

Epithelial cells lining the cervix are not just passive barriers. As a recently published study shows, these cells have their own “immune intelligence” and can prepare defenses before an infection spreads.

The Institute of Human Genetics at the University of Würzburg is moving to the University Hospital. There it will become part of the newly founded Institute for Clinical Genetics and Genomedicine.

A research team from the Würzburg Eye Clinic led by Dr. Malik Salman Haider celebrates success at the congress of the German Ophthalmological Society.

The Heinz-Walter Menke Foundation is funding a translational research project by Dr. Carolin Curtaz on cerebral metastasis in breast cancer with 25,000 euros.

Kathleen Wermke has been researching the vocalisations of infants and toddlers for decades. She has now been awarded the "Kulturpreis Deutsche Sprache" for her work.

From 14 October, the University of Würzburg will be taking part in an inter-university online lecture series on structural change and transformation. This time, the focus is on energy and water.