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  • Professor Franz Pfeiffer (left) with two employees at the computer tomograph in the Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering. Image: bavariaone

    TV report about TUM's corona research

    03 January 2022 | On December 27 and 28, Sat.1 Bayern reported about selected research projects, including a new X-ray technology.

  • Vasilis Ntziachristos, Professor of Biological Imaging, and his team have developed RSOM, a new imaging method. Image: Stefan Rumpf

    INNODERM research project honored with EU Commission Innovation Award

    Deep insights in skin imaging

    15 December 2021 | INNODERM research project honored with EU Commission Innovation Award

  • Bioanalyst Professor Bernhard Küster (right side) in the laboratory together with two researchers.

    Twelve TUM scientists included in Highly Cited Researchers rankings

    The most cited researchers worldwide

    22 November 2021 | Twelve researchers at TUM are among the world's most cited scientists. Their names can be found in the latest Highly Cited Researchers rankings.

  • Successful GCB/GRK2274 Summer School 2021

    16 November 2021 | The joint summer school of the Graduate Center BioEngineering and the Research Training Group GRK2274 “Advanced Medical Physics in Image-Guided Cancer Therapy” brings together doctoral candidates from various disciplines.

  • Prof. Franz Pfeiffer and his team have tested the dark-field X-ray technique in a clinical study. Image: A. Heddergott / TUM

    Dark-field X-ray technology improves diagnosis of pulmonary ailments

    New X-ray technology first used with patients

    26 October 2021 | Dark-field X-rays visualize early changes in the alveolar structure caused by the lung disease COPD and require only one fiftieth of the radiation dose typically applied in X-ray computed tomography. 

  • MSB becomes MIBE

    1 October 2021 | The Munich School of BioEngineering (MSB) is renamed in  Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering (MIBE) on October 1st, 2021. 

     

  • Co-author Prof. Burkhard Rost in the Department of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich. Image: Juli Eberle / ediundsepp / TUM

    The proteins of Covid-19

    15 September 2021 | Machine learning assisted structure analysis reveals SARS-CoV-2 virus tactics

  • Lined on the inside with virus-binding molecules, nano shells made of DNA material bind viruses tightly and thus render them harmless. Image: Elena-Marie Willner / DietzLab

    Hollow nano-objects made of DNA could trap viruses and render them harmless

    The virus trap

    15 July 2021 | To date, there are no effective antidotes against most virus infections. An interdisciplinary research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed a new approach: they engulf and neutralize viruses with nano-capsules tailored from genetic material using the DNA origami method. 

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