Labs, equipment and research

Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences labs

Research and projects (I33072-1)

Photographs of our labs © Furtwangen University, Nik Hobohm / Photographer, Furtwangen University / Bernd Müller

The Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences has an extensive range of labs, some of which is used for practical courses and research work together with the Faculty of Mechanical and Medical Engineering. A new Molecular Biomedicine Lab has been established for the Molecular and Technical Medicine programme.

More info and pictures from the labs can be found Internal link opens in the same window:here.

Research and projects

Current research in the field of Molecular and Technical Medicine

Students profit from current research projects

In the Molecular and Technical Medicine Bachelor programme (MTZ) students undertake a project practical, a practical semester and the Bachelor thesis. These can be carried out either internally or externally (at institutions, firms, clinics, etc.) and are often as interdisciplinary as the programme itself. Students can also work on topics as part of the Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences workgroup. By the way our faculty is one of the most-research oriented faculties at HFU.

Professors and staff from our programme are currently working in the field of antimicrobial and new implant coatings, also in the university-wide CoHMed project, a cooperation and transfer partnership with regional companies (€ 6m funding in total).

Some of the other projects can be found below and on the pages of the Institute of Precision Medicine.

The pictures shown here were taken in our state-of-the-art labs.

Molecular diagnostics and biomarkers

Research and projects (I158-1)

(c) Furtwangen University / Bernd Müller

A current Federal Ministry of Education and Research funded project, "MultiFlow", carried out by HFU Professors Deigner and Kohl in cooperation with R-Biopharm AG, Darmstadt and the University of Tübingen, researches nanoparticles for diagnostic applications. The new project fits perfectly into the Faculty of Medical and Life Science's profile for personalized medicine / "Precision Medicine" and is contributing to the expansion of this specialized area.

More information on this project can be found here: MultiFlow

Microbiology and hygiene

Research and projects (I159-1)

(c) Furtwangen University / Bernd Müller

The research projects headed by Professor M. Egert deal with the isolation and identification of micro-organisms from various material samples, the evaluation of the results, taking into account their significance for human health, and the development of measures for the targeted manipulation of the microbiota of the samples examined.

The following thematic foci currently characterize the research activities of the Microbiology and Hygiene group:

  • Symbiotic and pathogenic human-microbe interactions, mainly in the fields of digestion and skin microbiology
  • Hygiene research in the fields of workplace, household and bodily hygiene

Current projects:

  • immENS: a project of Furtwangen University with the project partners Kaiserslautern University, Symbiopharm GmbH (Herborn) and the MVZ Insitut für Mikroökologie (Herborn)
  • Internal link opens in the same window:WMP: a project of Furtwangen University, with the University of Giessen, Wageningen University, Henkel AG Co. KGaA, Düsseldorf and the Institute for Laboratory Medicine (Singen)
  • External link opens in a new window:CoHMed: the CoHmed sub-project is a cooperative project of Furtwangen University, the company Carl Zeiss Vision GmbH, University of Tübingen and the Institute of Laboratory Medicine (Singen)
  • Bilateral R&D industry cooperation in the field of "Microbiology and Hygiene

Data Science for life sciences

Research and projects (I160-1)

Statistical evaluation methods play a central role in the field of life sciences today. The main reason for this are the increasingly powerful high-throughput methods such as RNA/DNA microarrays or next generation sequencing. Such experiments produce a great deal of raw data that can only be analysed using specially developed bioinformatics and biostatistical methods. Robust statistical methods that are not or only slightly susceptible to outliers are of particular importance.

Since the 1990s, many hospitals have been collecting patient data in patient data management systems (PDMS). All patient-specific information on diagnosis and therapy is recorded and displayed and can be accessed centrally by the relevant staff (physicians, nursing staff). This is important not only for clinical staff, but also for hospital administrators for planning and cost calculation. The enormous amounts of data that can now be found in the databases can only be adequately evaluated and used in this way by the hospitals with the help of modern statistical methods.

Further information on the website:External link opens in a new window:www.life-data-science.org

Ongoing projects:

Project leader: External link opens in a new window:Prof. Dr. Matthias Kohl

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