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 […]
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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 […]
As of the memorandum-of-understanding between the Anatomical Society (AS) and the Anatomische Gesellschaft (AG), the AG hosted a symposium at the Summer Meeting of the AS on the 25.07.2024 in Edinburgh which was themed around Development, Plasticity and Aging of the Nervous System. After a keynote lecture by Anja Bräuer, anatomists at all career levels […]
The Anatomical Society mourns the loss of its long-standing member Professor Dr. Michail S. Davidoff (18.07.1940 - 20.06.2024). Professor Davidoff studied medicine at the University of Sofia in Bulgaria from 1960 to 1966. From 1976-1974 he was a research assistant at the Regeneration Research Laboratory of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia and an […]
Interactions between critical proteins reveal how disorders in neuronal communication can develop Dr. Artemis Koumoundourou from the research lab of Prof. Stefan Britsch, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Anatomy, at Ulm University has been awarded the Quarterly Publication Award (QPA) I/2024 of the Anatomische Gesellschaft for the identification of a Bcl11b/C1ql2/Nrxn3(25b+)-dependent pathway regulating the function […]
Dr. Julien Guy and his colleague Martin Möck from research group of Prof. Jochen Staiger at the Institute of Neuroanatomy at the University of Göttingen were awarded the Quarterly Publication Award (QPA) IV/2023 of the Anatomical Society for their investigations of the role of inhibitory cortical interneurons in sensory information processing: The aim of the […]
