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Campus Research Foci
The three Central Hessian universities have many areas of intersection in their subjects and, at the same time, owing to the difference in scientific profiles and to the strategy of creating professorships to be distinct but to intermesh with each other at the three institutions, their specialities are complementary, lending themselves to collaboration. In many fields, joint research activities have therefore been an established practice for many years. Cross-university cooperation is now funnelling into the Campus Research Foci. These contain thematically focused joint research clusters which pursue common scientific goals, are developing strategically and are successful in scientific competition.
With an increasing digitalisation of personal data, new methods for analysis and treatment are opening up in medicine, offering a fast and coherent profile of the patient.
The goal of the Campus Research Focus “Hospital Hygiene” is to implement an active management of infection prevention and infection control in hospital hygiene.
The scientists of the Campus Research Focus “Insect Biotechnology and Bioresources“ employ biotechnological methods to use insects as a resource for new molecules for applications in medicine, crop protection and industrial biotechnology.
To date, the available therapies for most respiratory and heart diseases only relieve disease symptoms, but do not cure the disease itself. It is here that scientists from the Research Campus Focus “Lung and Heart” come into play, investigating the causes and mechanisms of disease in order to develop new approaches for prevention, diagnosis and therapy.
The Campus Research Focus “Material, Molecule and Energy” is excellently networked on both a regional and an international scale. Scientists at the Universities of Giessen and Marburg and the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences conduct joint interdisciplinary research with other universities and research partners in Germany and abroad, applying theoretical, experimental and application-oriented approaches.
This Campus Research Focus pools the molecular, ecological and medical expertise in microbiology, virology and parasitology of the universities of Giessen and Marburg and the THM University of Applied Sciences, with the cooperation partners Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Paul Ehrlich Institute in Langen and the University Hospital of Giessen and Marburg.
Understanding the brain and, ultimately, the human mind is the key goal of the joint activities of the Campus Research Focus "Mind, Brain and Behaviour." Basic research projects span from subcellular processes to the whole brain, in healthy subjects and in neurological and psychiatric patients.
As regions of conflict, Eastern Europe and the Near and Middle East are in the focus of global interest and global politics. Not only are the relations between the two regions and Western Europe changing and intensifying dramatically, producing tensions and conflict, but also developments in the relationship of the Near and Middle East with Eastern Europe are dynamic and ever more critical.
Scientists from the Campus Research Focus “Space Applications” are addressing various challenges in the field of electric propulsion. The inter-institutional Laboratory for Space Applications (LaRa) of JLU and THM provides test-facilities for operating electric thrusters under space conditions.
