The oldest defense battle on earth? This has nothing to do with Germanic heroes or Roman legions, but with the battle of the immune system against invading pathogens - for example, in chronic inflammatory diseases such as Gout, Asthma, Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis. The educational game "Gam...
Stomach cancer is one of the five most deadly types of cancer: according to statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO), about 750,000 patients die of this disease every year. The main trigger is the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). There are currently no effective therapies for ga...
During an asthma attack, molecular scenarios must be combated in a playful way. Just five months after the launch of the Serious Game Game In Flame - Battle Against Inflammation, the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1181 at the University Hospital Erlangen is bringing the second update online.
Game In Flame "is a strategy game that offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of body defence. The strengths and weaknesses of immune system cells as well as the effect of drugs for combating chronic inflammatory diseases in the joints, intestines and lungs are explained in a playful way. The b...
In the 2nd CRC 1181 Minisymposium special fields of inflammation research will be highlighted. This event focuses on different mechanisms which are responsible for pathogenesis and resolution of inflammatory bowel diseases.
World Arthritis Day (WAD) is a global initiative bringing people together to raise awareness of issues affecting people with RMDs. WAD is organized every year on 12th October and is supported by a year-round global campaign.
Junior professor Dr. Aline Bozec has received the most important award for young researchers in Germany from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The biochemist, who has been a researcher at the Department of Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen since 2011, will be presented with the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize – which is worth 20,000 euros – in Bonn on 18 May 2016.
Scientists of the Departments for Internal Medicine 1 and 3 of the University Hospital Erlangen could demonstrate that chronic inflammatory gout diseases, such as Morbus Crohn and Colitis ulcerosa lead to significant bone loss by high-resolution imaging.
