Faculty of Medicine

The special characteristic of the Faculty of Medicine at Magdeburg is the indissoluble link between research output, teaching and the academic training of medical doctors, and the treatment of especially severe disease patterns.

Today, the Medical Faculty, as the second campus at the University of Magdeburg, is the training facility for around 1,500 prospective doctors and at the same time a major centre for medical care in Saxony-Anhalt. The Faculty does not just train students in human medicine, and, since very recently, immunology. It also gives equal priority to research. Students can take advantage of the MAMBA skills lab, a training centre in which future doctors can practice using needles and other techniques outside of classes.

Research topics

Clinical Research

  • Inflammatory diseases of the nervous system, especially Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
  • Epilepsy and other paroxysmal disorders
  • Neuromuscular diseases and movement disorders
  • Neuropsychology
  • Stroke
  • Mitochondria function laboratory
  • Dementia disorders
  • Memory clinic
  • Stereotaxy

The Health Campus

Researchers in the field of the Immunology and Molecular Medicine of Inflammation work together under the umbrella of the Health Campus for Immunology, Infectology and Inflammation (GC-I3), which was established by the Faculty of Medicine in 2014. In the interdisciplinary research priority with the motto "Understanding inflammation - healing common diseases", the molecular mechanisms of cellular communication in the immune system in both the healthy organism and in the context of acute and chronic inflammatory diseases are mapped and new therapies for patients are developed.

Spokesperson / Board of Directors

  • Prof. Dr. med. Rüdiger Braun-Dullaeus, Director of the University Clinic for Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology and member of the SFB 854
  • Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Fischer, Director of the University Clinic for Haematology and Oncology, spokesperson of the Else Kröner Research School Magdeburg and member of the SFB 854
  • Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Lohmann, Director of the University Clinic for Orthopaedics, spokesperson of the European HypOrth Consortium

Participants

  • Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
  • Max Planck Institute for the Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
  • Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research Braunschweig (HZI)
  • Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN)
  • German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)

Funding

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