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“We have to get the incentives right”
About the fight against food waste: What policies do people in their everyday lives support? – Interview with political scientist Lukas Rudolph
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Ion channel as possible target structure for therapies
In certain neurodegenerative diseases, metabolic by-products build up in cells. The modulation of an ion channel could offer a new therapeutic approach.
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Medicine: search for molecular patterns
How pathogenic gene mutations lead to heart failure – new findings about mechanisms.
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Supporting female researchers
The Princess Therese of Bavaria Foundation for the Promotion of Women in Science has been honoring special achievements by female researchers at LMU since 1997.
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Four more years for European University Alliance for Global Health
The European University Alliance EUGLOH, of which LMU is a member, has obtained funding for four more years.
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Events at LMU
8-12 Aug 2022 | Laws of nature
An international conference covering physical, mathematical, and philosophical aspects in the foundations of physics
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5-9 Sept 2022 | Social Entrepreneurship 4 Health
During this one-week, face-to-face EUGLOH course students will learn how to develop their own social start-up.
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22 September 2022 | Kick-off: Online trial courses
For students who like to give trial courses for prospective students on a platform of their choice
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Research on climate change
Researchers of various disciplines at LMU Munich are studying how to tackle the risks and challenges arising from global warming.
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Ukraine: expertise of LMU researchers
Understanding Putin’s speeches, evaluating possible consequences of the war: We talked to academics from various disciplines.
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Education and social participation
Scientists from a variety of disciplines at LMU study questions of education and social participation.
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Working the land to save the climate
Reforestation and a new approach to land management will play a crucial role in efforts to mitigate climate change.
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Looking again – and again
Buenos Aires, Mumbai, Shanghai: A project in art history features virtual rambles in the cities where exiled artists found new inspiration.
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Origin of life: Molecular gastronomy
What was the recipe for the "Ursuppe" from which life emerged? The early steps in the evolution of life some four billion years ago.
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"We have to get the incentives right”
About the fight against food waste: What policies do people in their everyday lives support and are they ready to accept costs?
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More than a question of origin
Antoinette Maget Dominicé, Uta Werlich, and Philipp Schorch talk about how anthropological museums can tell stories about the world.
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The power of chance
Life is constantly evolving, and yet “progress” is not the right word for this process of organismal change, says evolutionary geneticist Jochen Wolf.
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