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12 June 2025 | The ability to precisely predict movements is essential not only for humans and animals, but also for many AI applications — from autonomous driving to robotics. Researchers at TUM have now discovered that artificial neural networks can perform this task better when trained with biological data from early visual system development.

19 May 2025 | Blood sugar, heart rate, and sleep data – wearable sensors such as smartwatches, rings or insulin patches can be used to monitor health parameters in everyday life. In this episode of NewIn, we meet Prof. Can Dincer. He develops biochemical sensors for point-of-care diagnostics and wearables. He focuses on minimally and non-invasive applications, such as analyzing the breath.

17 April 2025 | New system enables more efficient and precise gene editing and could help make cancer immunotherapies more accessible.

23 January 2025 | Our bodies are made up of around 75 billion cells. But what function does each individual cell perform and how greatly do a healthy person’s cells differ from those of someone with a disease? To draw conclusions, enormous quantities of data must be analyzed and interpreted. For this purpose, machine learning methods are applied. Researchers at TUM and Helmholtz Munich have now tested self-supervised learning as a promising approach for testing 20 million cells or more.

18 December 2024 | Wearables such as smart watches or sensor rings are already a routine part of everyday life and are also popular Christmas gifts. They track our pulse rate, count our steps or analyze our sleep patterns. How can they already influence our behavior today and what future developments are possible? In this interview, Can Dincer, who holds a Professorship of Sensors and Wearables for Healthcare at TUM and is a PI at MIBE, offers insights into his research.

16 December 2024 | Quick action after a stroke hits can significantly reduce permanent damage. However, it is crucial to determine the exact time of the event to decide on the best treatment. A research team, including expertise from TUM, has developed an algorithm that can determine the timing of a stroke with exceptional precision, outperforming current approaches by a factor of two.

12 December 2024 | Whether it's type 1 diabetes, other autoimmune diseases or organ transplants – when the immune system gets out of balance, it can be dangerous. Instead of suppressing the entire system as a consequence and risking severe side effects, it would be preferable to regulate it in a targeted and localized manner. This is precisely what researchers have now engineered regulatory immune cells for.

11 December 2024 | Computer scientist and AI researcher Prof. Daniel Rückert receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2025. The professor of AI in Medicine and Healthcare at TUM is being honored for his research on AI-assisted medical imaging. The most important German research prize is endowed with 2.5 million euros by the DFG.

11 December 2024 | A team led by researchers at TUM has, for the first time, grown tumor organoids that mimic the different structures and characteristics of pancreatic cancer. The scientists investigated how the various tumor organoids react to established and novel treatments. This opens the door to the development of effective new therapies.

06 December 2024 | TUM celebrated the end of an extraordinarily successful 2024 with the Dies Academicus. Students, employees, and partners of TUM, including Prof. Hendrik Dietz and Prof. Oliver Hayden, PIs at MIBE, gathered in the Audimax at the main campus in Munich under the motto "Facta non verba" - deeds instead of words.