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  • Portrait picture of Prof. Julia Herzen

    The Master’s program “Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics” has begun in digital form.

    Studying in the Age of Corona

    12 June 2020 | Prof. Julia Herzen speaks about digital teaching within the Master’s program “Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics”.

  • Prof. Wall (r) and Dr. Biehler at work on their virtual lung model. (Image: A. Kerler / bavariaone)

    Computational model of the lung could significantly reduce the number of deaths from Covid-19 and ARDS

    Computer model enables protective ventilation

    29 May 2020 | Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) developed a computational lung model that could significantly reduce the number of deaths from Covid-19 and ARDS

  • Prof. Vasilis Ntziachristos demonstrates an imaging method similar to multi-spectral optoacoustic mesoscopy. (Image: M. Jooss)

    Opto-acoustic mesoscopy visualizes tumor tissue patterns

    High-resolution 3D view inside tumors

    27 May 2020 |  Researchers at TUM and Helmholtz Zentrum München have now succeeded in visualizing spatial changes within tumors by means of optoacoustics. 

  • Idea competition generates concepts for technical solutions inspired by nature.

    Learning from snakes

    18 May 2020 | Projects submitted for TUM’s bioinspired idea competition show how technical solutions can benefit from models in nature.

  • EU flag and ERC logo

    ERC Advanced Grant awarded to MSB-P Daniel Cremers

    Physics modeling using video data

    8 April 2020 | ERC advanced grant awarded to MSB-PI Daniel Cremers for a project on physics modeling using video data.

  • Detail of the brain vasculature of a mouse.

    Combination of biochemical methods and AI shows even the finest capillaries

    Analysis of whole brain vasculature

    17 Mar 2020 | Diseases of the brain are often associated with typical vascular changes. Now, scientists have come up with a technique for visualising the structures of all the brain's blood vessels including any pathological changes.

  • By mapping more than 18,000 proteins, TUM scientists have created an extensive molecular reference for the popular model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, which is freely accessible via the online database "ProteomicsDB". Image: Lehrstuhl für Proteomik und Bioanalytik

    First comprehensive map of the proteome of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana

    A molecular map for the plant sciences

    12 March 2020 | Under the leadership of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), a team of scientists has now mapped around 18,000 of all the proteins found in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.