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The first defence of a thesis completed on the three-year structured doctoral programme "PhD, MD/PhD, DMD/PhD" at University Medicine Greifswald (UMG) took place at the beginning of April. This programme is open to high-achieving graduates from the life and natural sciences, medicine and dentistry.

The plastic materials polyurethane and polyvinyl alcohol can now be degraded under mild conditions with the help of enzymes as biocatalysts. Scientists from the University of Greifswald have developed corresponding methods together with the German company Covestro and teams from Leipzig and Dublin,…

The global loss of wetlands is smaller than previously assumed according to the recently published study “Extensive global wetland loss over the last three centuries.” This has now (February 2023) been published in the scientific journal Nature (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05572-6). Peatland researchers…

Dr. Lasisi Adeiza Isiaka has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Georg Forster research fellowship for postdoctoral researchers. For the next two years, he will be conducting research as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Greifswald’s Chair of English Linguistics. Professor Dr.…

Biochemists from the Universities of Greifswald and Wuhan (China) as well as the Helmholtz Institute Berlin have developed a new concept that makes it possible to create custom-made highly selective biocatalysts suitable for the synthesis of important intermediate stages of drugs. This research…

Like its famous relative Brachiosaurus, Europasaurus holgeri is a long-necked, herbivorous and quadrupedal dinosaur. Both genera are sauropods and lived in the Jurassic. In contrast to its 15 m-tall relative from the North American mainland (giraffes are around 5 m tall), Europasaurus from Germany…

Sharm el-Sheikh/Greifswald A first comprehensive assessment of global peatlands will be presented in an official side event "State of the World's Peatlands – Global Peatlands Assessment: Evidence for action toward peatlands conservation" at the World Climate Summit COP27 on 17 November 2022. The…

The cross-border collaboration of medical emergency services can save lives if they are able to communicate with one another. This conclusion is drawn from the results of the EU-funded project “Multi-Level Approaches to Cross-Border Communication and Collaboration in Emergency Medicine” (GeKoM).…

In a recent study, an international team of researchers led by Prof. Agnes Flöel at University Medicine Greifswald has gained new insights into the role of the polyamine spermidine in brain ageing. The study, published on 2 November in the Journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the…

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has granted a third phase of funding for the Research Unit FOR 2406 ‘Proteogenomics of Marine Polysaccharide Utilization’ (POMPU). Scientists from Greifswald and Bremen belonging to the research unit will work together on an interdisciplinary basis and in…