We are Research
The future-oriented research focus on the environment and health (Environmental Health Sciences, EHS for short) investigates how various environmental influences affect health and the progression of diseases such as allergies, heart attacks and strokes. The focus here is on climate change and research into air quality, in particular the risks posed by particulate matter and ozone.
Closely networked with the EHS, the second research focus Medical Information Sciences (MIS) is working on bringing together large and highly complex data from patient care, biobanks or mobile health applications in order to discover new correlations regarding the development and progression of diseases and integrate them into treatment and prevention. The aim is to provide personalised healthcare tailored to individual patients.
At the Centre for Integrated Translational Medicine , a Science Hub (virtual and real) will offer scientists from clinical and basic research as well as doctors and students the opportunity to come together, develop joint research projects in a targeted manner and carry them out on an interdisciplinary basis.
Basic biomedical research at the Institute of Theoretical Medicine aims to gain a deeper understanding of certain common human diseases. For example, researchers in Augsburg are investigating the consequences of chronic pain for attention, memory and language, or how nutrition affects the brain.
Cancer research in Augsburg is integrated into large Bavarian and national research networks: the Bavarian Centre for Cancer Research BZKF, the National Tumour Centre NCT and the Oncological Centre of Excellence WERA*. Among other things, the latest personalised immunotherapies against cancer are being investigated.
* Würzburg - Erlangen - Regensburg - Augsburg
The Clinical Profile Centre for Vascular Medicine researches the influence of the environment on the cardiac, nervous and circulatory systems, using the valuable collection of data from patient care and Augsburg patient cohorts.
Augsburg Psychiatry is a site of the German Centre for Mental Health (DZPG), which investigates mental illnesses across the lifespan; the focus in Augsburg is on the treatment of depression.
Networking across disciplines
The declared aim of Augsburg University Medicine is to quickly transfer research results into the treatment of patients and to transfer questions from everyday clinical practice back into research.