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 […]
The German Society for Muscle Diseases has awarded PD Dr Alberto Catanese the Felix Jerusalem Prize, whose scope is to promote research in the field of neuromuscular diseases. The Ulm scientist PD Dr Alberto Catanese receives the first prize for his work on new transcription and mutation signatures in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using innovative methods […]
A team of scientists from Heidelberg has received a prestigious award for their groundbreaking discovery of how healthy nerve cells in the brain make contact with the tumor cells of glioblastomas and thus fuel the spread of these incurable brain tumors: The researchers from Heidelberg University, Heidelberg University Hospital and the German Cancer Research Center […]
Kimdaejung Convention CenterGwangju, Korea, September 5 (Thu) - 8 (Sun), 2024 Further Information: https://www. ifaa2024.org
