23-26 July 2025, Lisbon, Portugal, for more details, see www.isms2025.org www.isms2025.org

Prof. Dr. med. Thilo Wedel, Director of the Institute of Anatomy at Kiel University and Head of the Center for Clinical Anatomy, has been awarded the Rudolf Pichlmayr Medal in Silver by the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery (DGAV). The award is presented to individuals who have rendered outstanding services to the DGAV […]

July 24-27, 2025, Niigata, Japan, see https://neuroscience2025.jnss.org for more details

Renate Lüllmann-Rauch was born on December 29, 1941, in Neumünster and graduated from the Kieler Gelehrtenschule with her Abitur in 1961. She studied medicine in Kiel and Basel until 1967. Her doctoral research, conducted between 1964 and 1965 under the supervision of Professor Ohnesorge, a toxicologist in Kiel, focused on "Peristaltic Studies of the Intestine […]

World Anatomy Day is a joint initiative of the IFAA and national Anatomical Societies. At the 19th IFAA Congress in London, in August 2019 the IFAA General Assembly took a decision to celebrate World Anatomy Day on October 15th of each year. It was on this day, that the father of modern anatomy, Andreas Vesalius […]

For more details, please refer to the conference website: https://apica2025.tiemeeting.com/EN

On nanoplastics in macrophages and immortal cells of the lacrimal gland Researchers from the Institute of Anatomy at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg have been honored twice with the Quarterly Publication Award (QPA) II/2024 of the Anatomische Gesellschaft: Maike Adler and Dr. Katharina Jüngert (corresponding author) from the Institute of Functional and Clinical Anatomy and their co-authors involved […]

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kummer, former President of the Anatomische Gesellschaft, was awarded the Medal of Honour for outstanding services to the Faculty of Medicine at Justus Liebig University Giessen at an academic ceremony on 27 June 2024. The laudatory speech was given by Prof. Dr. Peter König from the University of Lübeck. Prof. Kummer was […]

Jochen Fanghänel was born on April 3, 1939 in Frankenberg/Saxony and graduated from high school in Frankenberg in 1957. His father worked as a lawyer in the Ministry of Finance in Dresden and was killed in action during the Second World War. Due to his academic background, he was initially denied the opportunity to study […]

Udo Schumacher, born on October 19, 1956, in Westerland on the island of Sylt, embarked on his academic journey at the Boy Lornsen Primary School in Westerland, followed by the Friedrich Paulsen Gymnasium in Niebüll/Nordfriesland, where he completed his Abitur in 1975. As a scholarship recipient of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, he pursued medical […]