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The Medical Immunology Campus Erlangen is an Interdisciplinary Research Center of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. In March 2009, scientists of various departments of the Medical Faculty and the Department of Biology have convened to join their forces and to improve scientific infrastructure in all disciplines related to immunobiology and clinical immunology. The group consists of over 100 university teachers, such as university professors, junior professors and Privatdozenten. We wish to integrate research activities into the Interdisciplinary Research Center and to pool our skills and strengths in basic and clinical immunology research at the university and our academic partners and cooperators in non-university research institutions.
During the summer and winter term, a lecture series (Immunological Colloquium) is held every Tuesday at 5:15 pm. Invitations are extended to scientists with immunological research topics from Germany and abroad. Suggestions for guest speaker invitations are made by our members.
Wie schafft es das Immunsystem, auf eingedrungene Erreger zu reagieren, ohne dabei dem eigenen Körper Schaden zuzufügen? Und warum richtet es sich manchmal doch gegen ihn? Diesen Fragen ist ein Team des Lehrstuhls für Genetik der FAU in Zusammenarbeit mit den Universitätskliniken in Erlangen und Reg...
Makrophagen bilden Barrieren in Gelenken
Ein Forschungsteam der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) hat entdeckt, dass Fresszellen des Immunsystems, sogenannte Makrophagen, geschlossene Barrieren bilden können und Gelenke so vor Entzündungen schützen. Bislang standen Makrophagen...
Discovery of mechanism that enables herpes viruses to access cellular building blocks
Around 60 to 90 percent of all adults carry the human cytomegalovirus, or human betaherpesvirus 5. In healthy people, an infection with the virus usually has very few or no symptoms. However, the virus can have se...
FAU scientists researching the ejection of antigens from cancer cells
The ejection of antigens from cancer cells is strictly regulated. This has now been proven by scientists at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, FAU. A better understanding of this mechanism could help in the development of new strateg...
