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  • Prof. Julia Herzen

    Prof. Julia Herzen talks about the new interdisciplinary master's program "Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics"

    Finding a common language

    15 Nov 2019 | An interdisciplinary curriculum and excellent career perspectives: Prof. Julia Herzen talks about the new interdisciplinary Master's program "Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics"

  • The Logibody team at the award ceremony.

    Research team mentored by MSB-PI Hendrik Dietz receives m4 Award

    Developing a nanoswitch for antibodies

    25 Oct 2019 | A research team mentored by MSB-PI Hendrik Dietz has received a m4 Award. They have developed a nanoswitch made from DNA that will allow immunotherapies against cancer to target tumors more specifically.

  • Humanoid robot covered with artificial skin encounters a human.

    Biologically-inspired artificial skin improves sensory ability of robots

    Sensitive robots are safer

    22 Oct 2019 | Sensitive synthetic skin enables robots to sense their own bodies and surroundings: A team led by MSB-PI Gordon Cheng has created the first autonomous humanoid robot with full-body artificial skin.

  • An intra-operative augmented reality system concept. Image: Marc Lazarovici and Alexander Winkler

    TV feature on medical augmented reality

    18 October 2019 | The documentary W wie Wissen produced by German public television ARD shows MSB-PI Nassir Navab’s work in the field of medical augmented reality.

  • Werner Hemmert, Professor of Bio-inspired Information Processing at TUM

    3D computer models improve cochlear implant design

    07 October 2019 | A team of researchers led by MSB-PI Werner Hemmert have applied the latest computer modelling techniques to create better cochlear implants (CIs).

  • Abraham Lopez, Matthias Feige, Michael Sattler,  and Sina Bohnacker (from left).  Image: A. Heddergott / TUM

    Quality control in immune communication

    26 September 2019 | Cellular control proteins, referred to as chaperones, detect immature immune signaling proteins and prevent them from leaving the cell.

  • The summer school participants in the BrainLab auditorium

    Living out interdisciplinary science

    The Graduate School of BioEngineering (GSB) summer school brings together doctoral candidates from various departments at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The scientists work in the fields of medical physics, medical informatics and robotics.