# Medical engineering

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**Parent**: https://www.fau.eu/research/

Medical engineering has been extremely important at FAU for several decades. FAU and Uniklinikum Erlangen work closely together with all faculties and institutes in medical engineering research and teaching, making a significant contribution to the leading edge cluster Medical Valley in the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region.

- [21DEC 2022

  Research

  ## An FAU team is involved in an EU project focusing on intent detection in artificial limbs

  Lifting a glass, making a fist, entering a phone number using the index finger: it is amazing the things cutting-edge robotic hands can already do thanks to biomedical technology. However, things that work in the laboratory often encounter stumbling blocks when put to practice in daily life. The problem is the vast diversity of the […]

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- [12DEC 2022

  Research

  ## The connection between illnesses of the digestive and nervous systems

  How do the gut and the brain interact, and can this even trigger disease? There is growing consensus within the research community that the nervous and digestive systems interact with each other. How exactly, however, is still largely unknown. The German Research Foundation (DFG) is now funding a new clinical research unit at FAU that […]

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- [16FEB 2022

  Research

  ## New medical advances thanks to digital twins

  The idea of treating certain conditions with electrical currents is not new. However, the results that can be achieved by combining physical and medical expertise with modern medical engineering are impressive. You only have to look at the research carried out by Dr. Andreas Rowald and his team at the Chair of Digital Health at […]

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