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Visit our first-class research initiatives and find out about the wide range of cutting-edge research in the German federal state of Hesse.

LOEWE research initiatives
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Hessian researchers in conversation.

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Working across subject and institutional borders, they are exploring the foundations of our world and our life, developing future-fit technologies and seeking answers to the foremost contemporary issues. Their work is made possible through LOEWE, the programme for promoting cutting-edge research initiatives in the federal state of Hessen.

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Mélanie Tichet of LOEWE-FCI
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Mélanie Tichet of LOEWE-FCI receives the Beug Foundation Prize for research on aging and therapy resistance in metastatic melanoma
Many LOEWE researchers are highly cited.
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Clarivate publishes "Highly Cited Researchers" 2025: Among the researchers with significant and far-reaching influence, again numerous LOEWE scientists are included.
Germany's most venomous spider
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A study on the toxins of Germany's most venomous spider, conducted by researchers led by first author Tim Lüddecke, LOEWE centers ZIB and LOEWE-TBG, provides new perspectives in the search fo
funding certificate for FCI
© Uwe Dettmar

The state will continue to fund the LOEWE Center "Frankfurt Cancer Institute" – twelve million euros are planned for the next two years.
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The Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and the former LOEWE Centre for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO) develop a turbo platform for plant research.
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Research-Initiatives - Topics

© Jan Michael Hosan, Hessen schafft Wissen

Health

Basic medical research • Innovative methods in diagnostics and treatment • Technological research for medical advancement • New approaches in cancer research • Pharmaceuticals research • Lung research

Culture & Society

Media changes: What are the implications of digitalisation for communication, research and society? • Development and learning processes in children • Conflict resolution in civil society • Language basics • Relations between human beings and animals in society
© Jan Michael Hosan, Hessen schafft Wissen

Natural Science & Environment

How did our world come into being? • Learning from insects • Can cells be given specific properties? • Climate change and biodiversity • Climate impact research • Small-scale mass spectrometry? • Resource-conserving energy storage

Business & Technology

Wireless communication • IT security • Biotechnology imaging • Ion thrusters for space travel • Adaptronics for noise and vibration control • Materials research for greater safety • For a sustainable financial architecture
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Professor Dr Sandra Ciesek

Esteemed Corona Expert

Dr.-Ing. Dietmar Hildenbrand

Mathematics with a difference
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Dr Maria Barbarossa

Using Mathematics to combat the Corona Pandemic
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Professor Stefanie Dehnen

Printed long-term data storage media
Saloumeh Gholami
© Katrin Binner

Professor Dr. Saloumeh Gholami

Exploring the Role of Language as a Carrier of Cultural Identity and Belonging
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Issue 03.2025 | October

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The fall issue of ProLOEWE-NEWS 2025 features the latest development of LOEWE-emergenCITY, the Heinerboxes, a symposium on coronaviruses to which LOEWE-CoroPan invited participants to Gießen in September, and the first LOEWE-ADMIT Summer School at Rauischholzhausen Castle in Ebsdorfergrund, Hesse.

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ProLOEWE faces for the first time as a double portrait with the two professors Kristian Kersting and Constantin Rothkopf, who bring together modern AI and cognitive science in Darmstadt within LOEWE-WhiteBox.

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