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Dr Patrick Pascal-Strunz was honoured by the German Bekhterev Disease Foundation. He received the research prize for the best scientific paper in German in this field.

The amount of data sent and received via the 5G mobile network is constantly increasing. Now, an international team involving the University of Würzburg is working on a globally standardized 6G concept.

Sustainability is a top priority here: Professor Denitsa Docheva's chair was the first orthopaedic research laboratory in Germany to be certified by My Green Lab.

A new Research Training Group in medicine and an extended one in psychology, psychiatry and neurobiology: researchers in Würzburg are celebrating funding success from the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Before nuclear power plants are dismantled, it is checked whether the parts of the building to be dismantled are free of radioactivity. A research team is working on a new measuring method to detect radiation efficiently.

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

Cooperation between Würzburg and Queensland receives funding: Complex models for complex diseases: 3D-printed synapses open up new ways of understanding childhood disorders of the nervous system.

Patrick Meybohm has been appointed as a new member by the Presidium of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

The European Union is funding a new research consortium investigating neuropathic pain with 1.5 million euros. A team from the University Hospital of Neurology in Würzburg is part of it.

"Forschung hilft", the foundation for the promotion of cancer research at the University Hospital of Würzburg, supports 21 projects with a total of almost 235,000 euros.

Rare genetic variants in nerve cells influence brain development and significantly increase the risk of ADHD. This is shown by an international study in which Würzburg University Medicine was involved.

Hannes Keiling, PhD student at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, has won first prize at the Mexican Science Day in Berlin. He can now use the 12,000 euros he won to plan a scientific workshop in Mexico.

This year's student prize for outstanding teaching goes to the psychologist Armin Stock and the physics didactics experts Jens Damköhler and Wolfgang Lutz.

On Monday, 1 December, a new project from the WueDive project will be presented. Modern learning materials are intended to promote the intercultural competence of teachers. The event will be rounded off with a concert.

When it comes to artificial intelligence, Europe is technologically dependent on the USA and China. A new project involving the University of Würzburg aims to change this. The aim is to develop a sovereign European AI.