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  • Daniel Rückert (right), Professor of AI in Healthcare and Medicine at TUM is discussing research results with a staff member. Image: Juli Eberle

    Faster diagnoses and shorter examinations

    Artificial intelligence in medicine and everyday clinical practice

    25 July 2025 | Artificial intelligence (AI) is also used in the medical field, to evaluate data or search for patterns in large amounts of data. Researchers at Technical University of Munich (TUM) are working on making these human-AI collaborations safe, reliable and efficient.

  • Dr. Hatice Ceren Ates

    Dr. H. Ceren Ates honored with two awards for her doctoral thesis

    Biosensor for personalized drug monitoring of antibiotics

    25 July 2025 | Dr. H. Ceren Ates was honored with two awards for her doctoral thesis. She developed and developed and tested a biosensor that can measure antibiotic concentrations in various body fluids and deliver results within a short time. This opens up new possibilities for personalized therapies.

  • European Research Council funds Proofs of Concepts

    Six ERC Grants for TUM researchers

    14 July 2025 | The European Research Council (ERC) supports scientists, who want to develop marketable innovations based on their research results, with Proof of Concept Grants. Researchers at TUM have now been awarded six of these grants, including two MIBE PIs: Prof. Gordon Cheng and Prof. Fabian Theis.

  • Gliom Connectom Analysis: die Arbeitsgruppe funktionelle Neuronavigation und -monotoring von Prof. Dr. med. Sandro Krieg an der Neurochirurgischen Klinik der TUM am Klinikum rechts der Isar kartiert präoperativ den Bereich der Bewegungs- und Spracharele mittels navigierter transkranieller Magnetsimulation (nTMS), um diese Bereiche bei einer Operation eines Hirntumors (Gliom) zu schonen. Bild: Astrid Eckert / TUM

    TUM Center for Structural and Functional Connectomics

    New center for brain research on the Garching campus

    10 July 2025 | A new connectomics research center will be established on the TUM campus in Garching, which will focus on the comprehensive mapping and analysis of all neuronal connections in the brain.

  • At the Technical University of Munich Prof. Bausch conducts research in the area of cellular biophysics. His work targets a quantitative understanding of the mechanical properties of the cytoskeleton and the microscopic mechanisms of self-organization How exactly does biological tissue find and maintain its shape? With a strongly interdisciplinary approach and a focus on development of powerful experimental model systems, biophysicist Prof. Andreas Bausch and his colleagues have made significant contributions to understanding this fundamental mystery of life. Image: Stefan Woidig / TUM

    Heinz Nixdorf Foundation supports organoid research at TUM

    Andreas Bausch is the new Nixdorf Professor

    08 July 2025 | Biophysicist and organoid researcher Andreas Bausch is taking over the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation Professorship at TUM. This comes with over 2.3 million euros in research funding. In addition, the equipment for a research laboratory in TUM's future Center for Organoid Systems (COS) will be financed.

  • Prof. Axel Haase (left) and Minister President Dr. Markus Söder at the award ceremony for the Federal Cross of Merit.

    High honor for renowned biomedical scientist and TUM Emeritus of Excellence

    Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for Prof. Axel Haase

    4 July 2025 | Professor Axel Haase has been awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of his outstanding contributions to biomedical science.

  • The ground-breaking ceremony for the ZDMG: From left: Thomas Jenkel, Dr. Martin Siess, Research Minister Markus Blume, Prof. Daniel Rückert, Prof. Stephanie Combs, Prof. Gerhard Kramer. Image: Kathrin Czoppelt / TUM Klinikum

    New infrastructure for pioneering research at the TUM University Hospital

    Construction begins on new Center for Digital Medicine and Health

    27 June 2025 | Construction has officially begun on the new Center for Digital Medicine and Health (ZDMG) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), marked by a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony. The interdisciplinary center, which will bring together medical research, artificial intelligence, and data science under one roof, is being built on the campus of the TUM University Hospital Rechts der Isar.

  • Lukas Driendl, doctoral candidate in the research group “Bio-inspired Information Processing”, at a conference in Orlando. He investigates how the auditory nerve responds to electrical simulation. Image: Werner Hemmert / TUM

    On the road for research

    From Simulations to Sunshine: Hearing Research in Orlando

    24 June 2025 | Sunshine, science, and simulation. At the MidWinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) in Orlando, Lukas Driendl, doctoral candidate in the research group “Bio-Inspired Information Processing”, spent an inspiring week diving into the latest in hearing research.

  • Researcher Carolin Müller from TUM Klinikum presents a new robotic module developed for cases of tension pneumothorax. Image: TUM

    Remote relief of tension pneumothorax

    Robot treats injured people in flight

    23 June 2025 | Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a medical robotic system to save lives. It relieves injured people with life-threatening tension pneumothorax in the chest cavity.

  • Biophysicist Prof. Dr. Friedrich Simmel, TUM spokesperson for the BioSysteM Cluster of Excellence. Image: Stefan Woidig / TUM

    Prof. Friedrich Simmel on the new BioSysteM Cluster of Excellence

    "Thinking of biology as technology"

    20 June 2025 | The BioSysteM Cluster of Excellence aims to develop self-organizing molecular and cellular systems with programmable, life-like properties. Spokesperson Prof. Friedrich Simmel explains in an interview why the involvement of society is crucial in this context.

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