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Tom Beneke, a researcher from Würzburg, has received an ERC Starting Grant for his work on the tropical disease leishmaniasis. This prestigious European research award is worth 1.5 million euros.

Psychedelic, experimental, electronic: so-called Krautrock is not just an alternative music scene from the 1970s. The bands also developed their own understanding of the world. A project is investigating what defines the scene.

The university and its researchers are always well represented in the media. Here are some recent examples.

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

Members of the university can order the university calendar for the coming year via an online form by 30 October at the latest.

JMU alumnus Matthias Coeler stumbled upon his work with batteries rather by chance. It all began at the Fraunhofer ISC in Würzburg and during his Erasmus year in Scotland.

German Cancer Aid has approved the funding of the Comprehensive Cancer Centres at the University Hospitals of Würzburg, Erlangen, Regensburg and Augsburg. It still carries the title ‘Centre of Excellence in Oncology’.

Silver for the men, bronze for the women: the Würzburg joint team, made up of players from the University of Würzburg and the Technical University, has won two medals in football at the European University Games in Italy.

A free webinar organised by Würzburg University Hospital and the Main-Post media group will be held on 22 September to answer key questions about high blood pressure.

From 8 to 11 September, the MS Wissenschaft will be moored near the Mainkuh in Würzburg. On board the exhibition ship is a digital research game from Würzburg that explains a special form of cancer treatment in an accessible way.

A new analysis by the German Centre for Heart Failure in Würzburg shows that remote care provided by specialist carers is not equally effective for all people with heart failure.

Shoma Kataoka's goal is to accelerate the analysis of large volumes of samples, such as those involved in drug discovery. He will receive close to 220,000 euros in funding for his research in Würzburg.

A new European research consortium, including scientists from Würzburg, wants to develop a radically new, ultra-precise reference for time and frequency: a compact nuclear clock based on thorium-229.

Anyone who missed the lecture series on democracy, trust and the public sphere can now watch some of the lectures online.

Always follow the bass in the woods: Würzburg used to party without mobile phones, but with a house bar and secret paths to the B-Hof. Now the wild youth are being turned into museum pieces. History students are helping with this.