News topic: Science
DNA-vaccine against “Respiratory Syncytial -Virus”
For babies, the elderly or people with pre-existing conditions, what is normally a harmless cold virus can turn out to be very serious. So far there has been no vaccine protection available against this. Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB) scientists are now ... read more »
Two new professors at the Bochum Knappschaftskrankenhaus hospital
As part of a research funding project by the state of NRW (PURE), two new respected senior physicians at the medical clinic (Director: Prof: Dr. Wolff Schmiegel) in the Universitätsklinikum Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum hospital have received professorships. The European Protein ... read more »
Sprach-GeBiTe Ruhr association to promote research
TU Dortmund and hsg in collaboration agreement At the beginning of March 2012, the speech therapy course at the Healthcare University of Applied Sciences (hsg) and the Department of Language and Communication at the Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences at the Technical ... read more »
Quality of life at the touch of a button
Who doesn’t want to live independently to a ripe old age? This is possible with the help of some technical aids. The focus here is on assistance systems (Ambient Assisted Living, AAL) which make life easier for elderly and ill ... read more »
Image campaign for care professions
Care staff are in desperate demand – this was the conclusion of the employers’ congress held in Bochum in the autumn of 2011. There is still a real lack of new employees in this field. On 1 March 2012 the ... read more »
Bochum’s oldest company – student support
Traditional companies often have to face the challenge of deciding on the path they should take for the future. Dr. Inka Krude, since 2003 owner of the oldest company in Bochum, the Alten Apotheke 1691, also had to find an ... read more »
Biobank: the person as a whole
Improved diagnostics with new software – Proteome-Center at RUB cooperates with Kairos GmbH A new biodatabase points the way to the future: the Medical Proteome Center (MPC) at the Ruhr University Bochum sees people as a whole – from the ... read more »
Targets agreed with Ministry of Science
Professor Dr. Anne Friedrichs, President of the University of Applied Sciences (hsg) and the Science Minister, Svenja Schulze, have signed a first Target and Performance Agreement between the university and the ministry in Essen. "The University of Applied Sciences hopes to ... read more »
Centre for Natural Medicine in the BioMedical Science Park Bochum
First preparations are underway for yet another organisation to settle in the BioMedical Science Park: the municipal Entwicklungsgesellschaft Ruhr-Bochum mbH (EGR) has sold the third plot: Dr. Isabell Hoffmann-Klose and her husband Dr. Joachim Geza Klose are going to set ... read more »
RUB agrees on roadmap for the next few years
The Ruhr University of Bochum will continue on its chosen path: on 19 January the RUB also signed the Target and Performance Agreement IV with the Ministry for Innovation, Science and Research of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. "The agreement ... read more »