NanoBioMed – Life and Materials

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Innovative research at the interface of medicine and the natural sciences

The core research area 'NanoBioMed – Life Science and Materials' brings together research activities at Saarland University in the natural sciences and medicine. NanoBioMed focuses on innovative, interdisciplinary research in the fields of medicine, pharmaceutical science, the life sciences and bioinformatics.

The Departments of Biosciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Materials Science and Engineering, Pharmaceutical Science, Physics, Systems Engineering and the Clinical Medicine and Theoretical Medicine sections of the Faculty of Medicine all collaborate closely with the cross-faculty Centers for Human and Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics and Biophysics, as well as with other external research institutions on campus.

- Research projects
  Major research projects in NanoBioMed are funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the EU Commission.
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- nextAID³
  With this project, Saarland University is applying within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.
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- PharmaScienceHub
  More than 70 research groups are working together to develop drugs to combat infectious diseases, cancer and age-related illnesses.
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- Young Investigators
  Saarland University's programme to support and foster early career researchers in the NanoBioMed field.
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- Research facilities
  Center for Integrative Physiology and Molecular Medicine | Center for Molecular Signaling | Center for Biophysics
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- Core Facilities
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- The Saar 3R Platform
  Animal experiments: Replace – Reduce – Refine
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