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.
