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José Pedro Friedmann Angeli, Professor of Translational Cell Biology in Würzburg, has been awarded the prize in the “Experimental Research” category – together with his colleague Professor Marcus Conrad (Helmholtz Munich).

Boehringer Ingelheim and the Lower Franconian company EMFRET Analytics want to advance an active substance for the treatment of strokes. Its roots lie in the Würzburg University Medicine.

Researchers at the Würzburg site of the Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat have successfully transferred the topological quantum Hall and spin Hall effects to a hybrid light–matter system using targeted material design.

The new EU Inc. regulations are intended to make it easier for companies to expand in Europe. Members of the Würzburg Faculty of Law have contributed to this.

Rising temperatures are threatening dung beetle populations in the Amazon. The example shows a trend that could bring many insect species there to their heat threshold. Researchers from Würzburg and Bremen conducted the study.

Quantum repeaters are at the heart of a new research project involving a team from the University of Würzburg. The collaborative project is researching technologies and demonstrators for these building blocks of large-scale quantum networks.

Chemistry: A sophisticated process stacks dye molecules in such a way that their luminosity increases significantly as their size grows – a significant step forward for the electronics of tomorrow.

For her pioneering work on catalytic nucleic acids, the Würzburg chemistry professor Claudia Höbartner has been awarded the Albrecht Kossel Prize by the German Chemical Society.

Würzburg University President Paul Pauli is once again one of the ten most popular rectors in Germany. This time he is ranked 9th.

The Cluster of Excellence "Cross-Cultural Philology" at LMU Munich, which was launched at the beginning of 2026, takes a global look at 5,000 years of written culture. Among them is Würzburg-based Egyptologist Martin A. Stadler.

A lack of vitamin B2 makes tumour cells more susceptible to a unique form of cell death. This was discovered by researchers at the Rudolf Virchow Centre at the University of Würzburg.

The University and University Hospital of Würzburg have demonstrated magnetic particle imaging on humans for the first time. The new procedure enables radiation-free visualisation of blood vessels in real time.

The spread of a particular genre of music reflects the borders between medieval empires in Europe. This is shown by a study conducted by a musicologist at the University of Würzburg.

The EO4CAM web portal supports authorities and local authorities in Bavaria with issues relating to climate-adapted urban development, forestry and agriculture.