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  • Logo of the Virofight consortium. It shows a drawing of a virus enclosed in a hexagon. The inscription underneath says "Novel nano-technology to contain viruses"

    European research consortium VIROFIGHT to advance novel treatment against viruses

    Fighting viral infections with engulfing nano-shells

    13 July 2020 | European research consortium VIROFIGHT to advance novel treatment against viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, HIV, influenza and hepatitis viruses.

  • Radio-pharmaceuticals can render pathological changes in tissue visible and can precisely destroy tumors.

    Radioactive probes in medicine

    3 July 2020 | The company Scintomics, founded by MSB-PI Prof. Wester, supplies hospitals around the world with the equipment and materials necessary to produce these radioactive medications.

  • Since 2020, Eleonore Eisath and her young team of TUM Alumni and Students have been doing research at the TUM Entrepreneurship Center and in the Bio.Kitchen, TUM's open life science laboratory about the feeding behaviour of the waxworm. (Image: Private)

    Portrait of one of the biomimetics idea competition winners

    “We want to solve one of the biggest environmental problems”

    18 June 2020 | The start-up on a natural recycling system of plastic from TUM Alumna Eleonore Eisath was one of the winning projects of the  first idea competition of the biomimetics team, which is located at MSB. TUM Alumni & Career portrayed her.  

  • 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.

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