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ProLOEWE-NEWS Special Edition Excellent Hesse
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The Excellence Strategy is an important agreement between the federal and state governments that aims to sustainably promote top-level research and strengthen the international competitiveness of German universities - and thus Germany as a business location. It is the successor to the Excellence Initiative and is divided into two central funding lines: Clusters of Excellence and Universities of Excellence. As you can see in this special edition of ProLOEWE-NEWS Excellent Hesse, the proportion of scientists who have already carried out research in LOEWE projects is high. Overall, the importance of the LOEWE program on the path to research excellence in Hessen cannot be overestimated. With the Excellence Strategy and successfully acquired Clusters of Excellence, Hesse is becoming a central player in top-level research in Germany. The combination of innovative projects and strategic partnerships lays the foundation for forward-looking scientific development.
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Issue 01.2025 | March
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In the first issue of ProLOEWE-NEWS 2025, LOEWE-TREE-M takes readers into the forest, because the scientists find what they need for their research in the Quercus robur canopy. Under the headline “How my LOEWE research group is trying to whet the appetite of phagocytes for cancer cells”, Mèlanie Tichet gives an insight into her work at LOEWE-FCI. LOEWE-DYNAMIC researchers take a look back at a two-day retreat in January this year, which focused on innovative applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the treatment of mental illness.
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In March, Prof. Franziska Matthäus will be a guest on ProLOEWE-Faces to tell us more about LOEWE-CMMS and the development of digital twins of biological systems.
Issue 03.2024 | December
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In the winter issue of ProLOEWE-NEWS, you can once again expect exciting topics from the ProLOEWE network: “From multiscale model to digital twin” was the title of the CMMS final conference, the Hessian Minister of State Timon Gremmels' was at LOEWE-Admit to hand over the certificate, LOEWE-HABITAT with research on health warning systems based on weather forecasts and LOEWE-ACLF-I was co-host of the 28th Liver Forum “Patients ask - doctors answer”. And then a farewell to two successful centers: LOEWE- DRUID and LOEWE-TBG, whose funding ends in 2024.
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We introduce you to Prof. Dr. Christoph Welsch, a physician with a passion for engineering and spokesperson for LOEWE-ACLF-I, in an interview.
Issue 02.2024 | July/August
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The summer edition of PROLOEWE-NEWS awaits you with current topics from LOEWE cutting-edge research: the Open eHUB Day of the LOEWE Center emergenCity in Darmstadt, tiny creatures as soil helpers being researched by LOEWE-TBG in Frankfurt, the final symposium of the LOEWE Center DRUID and new findings in research against antibiotic resistance by LOEWE-Diffusible Signals.
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Prof. Saloumeh Gholami is a member of the directorate of the LOEWE research cluster “Minority Studies: Language and Identity”. Her research explores the role of language as a carrier of cultural identity and belonging.
Issue 01.2024 / March
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In the first issue of the year, you can expect a wide variety of topics from LOEWE's excellent research: from agriculture and species conservation to women in science and human decisions in artificial intelligence to upcoming events by LOEWE-FCI and SYNMIKRO and the election of the International Mollusk of the Year 2024, which is organised and accompanied by LOEWE-TBG.
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Prof Dr Sandra Ciesek, also LOEWE top professor and co-spokesperson of LOEWE-CoroPan, is Director of the Institute of Medical Virology at Frankfurt University Hospital and was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit First Class for her coronavirus research last year.
Issue 03.2023 / December
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In the December issue of ProLOEWE-NEWS 2023, you can once again expect a wide range of current topics from LOEWE projects: From projects that show how science "works" to research by LOEWE-TBG on dangerous pathogens and the leishmaniasis self-test by LOEWE-DRUID, which is going into production. Further highlights are the reviews of the opening of the Offenbach Institute for Mobility Design (OIMD), which emerged from LOEWE-IDG, and the LOEWE-AO finissage.
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ProLOEWE faces with Dr Elisabeth Hollender, spokesperson for the LOWE Cluster "Minority Studies: Language and Identity" and Professor of Jewish Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. She researches the cultural history of medieval Judaism and its interaction with the surrounding culture.
Issue 02.2023 / August
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Also in the second issue 2023 you can expect a wide variety of topics from the LOEWE projects: From research on plant-based agents against viruses and other pathogens, AI researched by White Box and presented in the context of Hessen animated, to new research approaches in tumor metabolism with Melek Canan Arkan as a newly appointed professor, to Dr. Tim Lüddecke as a young researcher at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and many more insights.
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ProLOEWE faces this time with Prof. Dr. Florian R. Greten, speaker of the LOEWE Centre FCI and director of the Georg-Speyer-Haus in Frankfurt am Main. His scientific focus is on research into the development of colorectal cancer and the development of new therapeutic approaches.
Issue 01.2023 / April
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In the spring issue of ProLOEWE NEWS, we introduce you to the two new LOEWE Cluster Tree-M and CoroPan, which have been funded since January 2023. In addition, you will learn more about current research results of the LOEWE Center TBG on the extraordinary flight skills of the hummingbird. Last but not least, two events and a policy paper by LOEWE-emergenCITY on disaster management.
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Prof. Dr. Christiane Salge, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the TU Darmstadt and Deputy Spokesperson of the LOEWE Focus "Architectures of Order“
ProLOEWE-NEWS anniversary issue
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ProLOEWE is celebrating its 10th birthday with a big anniversary issue of ProLOEWE-NEWS. In it you will find reports from current and former LOEWE centres and focal points, the topics range from AI and building with paper to ecological agriculture, climate knowledge from the past and the future of mobility. We are especially pleased with the numerous congratulations that "open" this special issue!
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In ProLOEWE-faces Matthias Hollick gives insights into his work. In the second part of the issue you will find an overview of the LOEWE projects funded since the start of the programme.
Issue 01.2022 / March
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In the spring issue of ProLOEWE-NEWS, we present one of the three LOEWE research clusters that have been newly funded since January 2022, namely FLOW FOR LIFE, and report on the extension of the two LOEWE centers LOEWE-DRUID and LOEWE-TBG. There are also groundbreaking publications by the LOEWE-Nuclear Photonics in the journal Nature Communications and LOEWE-FCI in the journal Cancer Cell, about which you can find out more in the current issue.
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At ProLOEWE Personal Professor Stefanie Dehnen is in the portrait, in which she tells more about her work, about printed long-term data storage and why chemistry is such an exciting topic.
Issue 3.2021/ December
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In this issue of ProLOEWE-NEWS we present two new lecture series for the winter semester 2021/2022 of the LOEWE focus areas Religious Positioning and Architectures of Ordering, which can also be attended online. Also, a positive conclusion as a result of the evaluation of focus groups in research on sustainable mobility within the LOEWE priority IDG, an article on the first international workshop on data storage in molecular media and more.
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A portrait of Professor Dr Stephan Becker, Director of the Institute of Virology at Philipps-Universität Marburg and spokesperson for the LOEWE Centre DRUID.
Issue 02.2021 / July
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The cover story of the current issue is "How can we make Hesse forests fit for longer periods of drought and the hot summers that are likely to become more frequent?” And following up the topic of heat: the summer holidays in Hesse are about to start. On 2 August, the ProLOEWE Science Rally starts at proloewe.de and offers an exciting holiday programme for children aged 10 and over and their families. Three new LOEWE clusters from January 2022 onwards and twelve research projects in the new "LOEWE Exploration" funding line, as well as many other topics.
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A portrait of Prof. Dr Miklós Bálint, Head of the Functional Environmental Genomics programme area at the LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics.
Issue 01.2021 / March
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Four new LOEWE clusters have been attracting state funding since 1 January. We would like to present them to you in the first ProLOEWE NEWS 2021. The BAMP! LOEWE cluster has received a special award: the scientists working on the project have been invited to the 2020/2021 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Find out how AI can help in epilepsy research and how to make what is hidden in nature visible in the reports on LOEWE CePTER and LOEWE Nature 4.0. There is also a lecture series by LOEWE TBG and Senckenberg this year entitled "Nature's blueprint - how genomics is revolutionising our view of biodiversity".
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A portrait of Dr Maria Barbarossa, Fellow and Research Group Leader at LOEWE CMMS
Issue 03.2020 / December
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LOEWE projects are also facing major challenges as a result of the Corona pandemic. Find out how the scientists are dealing with this in the December issue of ProLOEWE-NEWS. But also what virtual reality has to do with the mobility of the future.
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In the ProLOEWE faces portrait, you will get to know Professor Dr Christian Wiese, who is researching how the coexistence of the monotheistic world religions can succeed better as part of the LOEWE cluster on religious positioning.
Issue 02.2020 / August
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The LOEWE Research-Initiatives are also involved in the fight against the Corona pandemic. In this issue of the ProLOEWE NEWS the LOEWE-Initiatives report about their current research work. In addition you can get to know the new managing director of LOEWE-ALLEGRO.
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You will also find a portrait of Juniorprofessor Dr Ulrike Kramm who is working in the LOEWE Cluster "FLAME".
Issue 01.2020 / March
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The current issue "GLOBAL VIRUS OUTBREAKS, CYBER-ATTACKS, NATURAL DISASTERS - HOW CAN WE PROTECT OURSELVES FROM CRISES IN FUTURE?" focuses on crisis management. Alongside the new LOEWE cluster entitled “Minority studies: language and identity”, we will report on a new professorship for minority languages in the Middle East.
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You will also find a portrait of Jan Hendrik Bruinier and his work within the LOEWE cluster known as “Uniformized Structures in Arithmetic and Geometry (USAG)”.