Medical Engineering at FAU

In 2023, FAU has once again proven itself as one of the most high-ranking universities in a variety of fields. With its selection of experts and focus on research and industry, it has achieved exceptional rankings in the Times Higher Education (THE), Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects and the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The areas of Medical Technology and Biomedical Engineering in particular continue to have excellent ratings at FAU, as do other FAU subjects with which the degree program Medical Engineering is collaborating.

Neurons in the hippocampus control our spatial learning, however, they are very unstable. Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN) in Magdeburg are trying to decipher these dynamics in a joint project. The LIN will provide time lapse images from the brains of mice and FAU is going to develop an AI-supported tool for analyzing the images. The project is being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), with FAU receiving 320,000 euros.

Children who can no longer move their hands, for example, after suffering a stroke early in life: If the scientists at the Neuromuscular Physiology and Neural Interfacing Laboratory (N-squared Lab) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have their way, such limitations will soon be a thing of the past.