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A team of researchers has taken some important steps towards finding treatments for a specific form of hereditary spastic paraplegia, a group of neurodegenerative diseases for which there is currently no known cure.

Researchers at the Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology and at the Department of Medicine 1 have identified another substance that could be just as effective at combating severe pain, but is much more easily tolerated.

Researchers have been investigating how tumor necrosis factor (TNF), a messenger substance in the immune system, protects against infection for many years. A new mechanism via which TNF protects against pathogens that cause infection has now been discovered.

Photodynamic therapy is an effective treatment for early-stage skin cancer. However, this therapy can cause patients severe pain. The reason for this was previous a mystery to researchers. Our Physiologists have now discovered that it is due to two specific ion channels.

About 80% of deaths caused by chronic, non-communicable diseases occur in low or middle income countries. Patients are often uninformed about causes and treatment options, which can lead not only to a deterioration in their state of health, but also to social exclusion. Improving health education and patient-oriented care offer considerable opportunities for prevention and treatment of chronic diseases.

A research team at the Department of Medicine 3 has discovered a mechanism that stops chronic inflammation.

The festschrift of this year's Jakob-Herz-Prize is now available. The prize was awarded to the US neuroscientist Professor Dr. F.H. Gage on February 12th, 2016.

How likely do patients develop again cancer after a tumor has been surgically removed? This is the central question of the new research project „MelEVIR – Melanoma, Extracellular Vesicles, and Immune Response“.

Prof. Dr. Lisa Gabel, neuroscientist at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania (USA) and Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, will carry out a clinical study about dyslexia in children with German as a mother tongue at the Division of Child and Adolescent Mental Health

On the occasion of the Naturejobs Career Expo, the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Science were part of the "Research in Germany" booth.