# Innovation success stories

**Source**: https://www.fau.eu/university/innovation/innovation-profile/innovation-success-stories/
**Parent**: https://www.fau.eu/

FAU is known for research that makes an impact, inspiring degree programs, inquisitive, talented and cosmopolitan students, successful graduates and activities that radiate out across the globe.

## Open to all: a new MRI for the world

Just recently, in 2023, a team from FAU and Siemens Healthineers received the German Future Prize, the most prestigious German innovation award, in recognition of their innovation “Open to all: a new MRI for the world”.

“Open to all: a new MRI for the world”.**<https://www.deutscher-zukunftspreis.de/en/team-1-2023>**

Researchers, innovators and alumni from FAU have developed solutions that are changing lives across the globe. Examples are:

- **Ernst Arthur Eichengrün**, a formal doctoral candidate from FAU, who discovered the active substance in Aspirin, acetylsalicylic acid, and developed a method for its mass production.
- **Emmy Noether**, one of the first women to study mathematics at FAU, who set trends in modern algebra and made an important contribution to mathematical physics.
- **A team of FAU and Fraunhofer researchers**, who developed the MP3 format, paving the way for modern smartphone and digital audio applications.