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  • Prof. Dr. Can Dincer, Professor for Sensors and Wearables for Healthcare Image: Andreas Heddergott / TUM

    Interview with Prof. Can Dincer on wearable medical sensors

    Continuous health monitoring with wearables

    18 December 2024 | Wearables such as smart watches or sensor rings are already a routine part of everyday life and are also popular Christmas gifts. They track our pulse rate, count our steps or analyze our sleep patterns. How can they already influence our behavior today and what future developments are possible? In this interview, Can Dincer, who holds a Professorship of Sensors and Wearables for Healthcare at TUM and is a PI at MIBE, offers insights into his research.

  • The Dies Academicus 2024 in the TUM Audimax with around 1000 guests. Image: Andreas Heddergott / TUM

    Dies Academicus under the motto "Facta non verba - deeds instead of words"

    TUM celebrates a successful 2024

    06 December 2024 | TUM celebrated the end of an extraordinarily successful 2024 with the Dies Academicus. Students, employees, and partners of TUM, including Prof. Hendrik Dietz and Prof. Oliver Hayden, PIs at MIBE, gathered in the Audimax at the main campus in Munich under the motto "Facta non verba" - deeds instead of words.

  • Engaging slams and an engaged audience at MIBE’s Science Slam during the Bioengineering Day 2024. Lisa Budzinski, herself a scientist and TV host of ZDF’s Terra Xplore, moderated the event. Image: Carolin Lerch / TUM

    Science Slam at the Bioengineering Day 2024

    „A story of adventure, science, and a bit of horror“

    27 August 2024 | Magnetoelectric nanoparticles for Frankenstein, medical imaging with polka dot patterns, and microtaxis that move between cells. On Friday, 24 July, at MIBE's third Bioengineering Day, researchers brought their topics to life in the form of science slams.

  • Sars-CoV-2 infection causes thrombocytes to attach to the blood platelets. This creates cell aggregates in the bloodstream.

    TUM researchers develop rapid test for severe infections

    Risk of serious COVID-19 infection can now be predicted

    29 November 2023 | Researchers have developed a method for assessing the number and structure of aggregated blood platelets that can potentially help quantify the risk of a severe COVID-19 infection.

  • Prof. Dr. Werner Hemmert and Dr. Siwei Bai are developing computer models to better understand and simulate the hearing process with cochlea implants.

    DFG funding for research on cochlear implants

    Computer models to improve hearing implants

    20 July 2023 | Prof. Werner Hemmert and his team are researching the hearing process with cochlear implants (CI). They are developing computer models to investigate which information passes from the CI to the nervous system.

  • Doctoral candidate Lukas Hiendlmeier working on the self-folding electrodes. Image: Andreas Heddergott / TUM

    Self-folding electrodes stimulate fine nerves

    4D printing for nerve stimulation

    17 July 2023 | An international research team has developed flexible electrodes that fold themselves around thin nerves upon contact with moisture. They are produced with 4D printing technology.

  • Checking the cells on multi-electrode arrays under the microscope at the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center.

    Experiment from TUM student initiative WARR space labs on the ISS

    "Our box flies by up there every 90 minutes"

    21 April 2023 | Experiment from TUM student initiative WARR space labs on the ISS

  • Prof. Gordon Cheng is researching how insights from robotics and neuroscience can be combined - in order to build better robots and to help humans. Funded by an ERC Advanced Grant, he now wants to develop an exoskeleton for people with paralysis.

    Project STROLL: Soft exoskeleton for people with paralysis

    ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Prof. Dr. Cheng

    30 March 2023 | Prof. Gordon Cheng is awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his project STROLL. He wants to develop a soft exoskeleton for people with paralysis.

  • The image shows a flexible electrode that is connected to a nerve. The nerve is represented as a purple colored tube. The electrode consists of six circular metal parts each equipped with a small tip that goes into the nerve. A metallic conducting track leads to any of these electrode ends. The tracks are embedded in a transparent band.

    Collaboration between NTT Research and the Technical University of Munich

    Developing flexible electrodes for medical applications

    3 Aug 2020 | Collaboration between the neuorelectronics group at the MSB and the Medical and Health Informatics (MEI) Lab at NTT Research launched.

  • Prof. Dr. Werner Hemmert and Dr. Siwei Bai have developed a computer model which predicts the neuronal activation patterns that cochlea implants create in the auditory nerve. Image: Andreas Heddergott / TUM

    Computer model shows neuronal activation patterns in the inner ear

    Research towards improved cochlear implants

    6 March 2020 |  Researchers at TUM have developed a computer model which predicts the neuronal activation patterns that the implant creates in the auditory nerve fibers. 

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