Press Releases

The presented list of press releases in English is only a selection of our German press texts. For the time being, these translated press releases focus primarily on science and research at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

04.12.2012: Gerold Krause-Junk is recipient of the 2013 Johannes Gutenberg Endowed Professorship

Lecture series of the internationally renowned public finance expert is to focus on the European Monetary Union and the future of the European Community from an economic perspective ...

04.12.2012: Mainz neuroscientist Robert Nitsch receives the European Union’s most highly remunerated research funding award

ERC Advanced Grant for the promotion of cutting-edge research in the field of neuroscience at the Mainz University Medical Center ...

04.12.2012: Ray of hope for human Usher syndrome patients

Biologists at Mainz University achieve repair and read-through of stop mutations responsible for the disease ...

29.11.2012: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz continues expanding services relating to the student life cycle

Mainz University adapts advisory services to the changing student situation / Career Service offers occupational orientation and provides skills ...

29.11.2012: After Bologna: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz breaks new ground in university teaching

Strategic measures lead to professionalization of learning and teaching as well as study management at Mainz University ...

29.11.2012: New MRI technology to provide even better images of the inside of the human body

German Federal Ministry of Education and Research earmarks EUR 1.3 million to develop magnetic resonance imaging using polarized substances ...

28.11.2012: New collaborative research center at Mainz University focuses on basic research in neurosciences

German Research Foundation provides funding of approximately EUR 9.3 million ...

28.11.2012: Mainz University Medical Center agrees partnership with Yale University

Major boost for the Research Unit Translational Neurosciences ...

26.11.2012: Founders Day 2012 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: EUR 50,000 for projects in research and teaching

Sources of innovation and inspiration: Foundations present various forms of social commitment to the university ...

26.11.2012: Scientists at the Institute of Molecular Biology identify key event for sex determination

Deletion of just one gene results in complete sex reversal of male mice ...

26.11.2012: Scientists from Bangalore and Mainz develop new methods for cooling of ions

Ions are cooled during collisions with cold atoms / Similar processes assumed to occur in space ...

21.11.2012: Research Training Group "Transnational Social Support" receives EUR 2.8 million in support for the next four and a half years

Young researchers look at the provision of social support across national borders ...

20.11.2012: Scientists at Mainz University identify inhibitor of myelin formation in the central nervous system

Possible implication for various neurological illnesses ...

19.11.2012: New database at the Institute of Musicology contains 40,000 musical settings of the Mass

Online database lists settings from the 14th century to the present ...

15.11.2012: Consolidating the scholarship tradition: Students at Mainz University receiving a German National Scholarship meet their sponsors

Strenghtening the network of business, academia, and society ...

09.11.2012: Top-level research in particle and hadron physics at Mainz University is funded with EUR 35 million

Opening ceremony of the PRISMA Cluster of Excellence ...

08.11.2012: Mainz University Medical Center agrees to establish a German-Vietnamese Faculty of Medicine at Pham Ngoc Thach University in Vietnam

Medical students and scientists will benefit from joint research projects ...

07.11.2012: Development of measures to prevent wine indispositions

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the DLR develop measures to prevent health problems associated with biogenic amines in wine ...

06.11.2012: Leading expert in DNA damage signaling joins Institute of Molecular Biology at Mainz University as Scientific Director

Helle Ulrich complements related research initiatives at Mainz University ...

05.11.2012: Vijay Tiwari awarded prestigious grant to study how cancer cells transform to become invasive

Group leader at the Institute of Molecular Biology is one of only eleven Young Investigators to be invited into the EpiGeneSys Network of Excellence this year ...