https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/thema/pharmacy/ Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität | Neues aus Forschung, Lehre, Studium Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:54:08 +0000 de hourly 1 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cropped-fav_guo-blau-32x32.jpg https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/thema/pharmacy/ 32 32 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/contraception-without-hormones-goethe-university-researches-alternatives-to-the-pill/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:54:07 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=87632 German Federal Ministry of Research funds PREVENT project in Frankfurt, Bonn and Munich with €3 million The “pill” was once hailed as medical revolution, later it became the most widely […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/ligand-ai-an-international-open-science-initiative-using-ai-to-advance-early-drug-discovery/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:26:34 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=87168 Goethe University is a partner in the international research initiative to generate open protein-ligand data, and lay the foundation for AI-driven drug discovery. Artificial intelligence has the potential to greatly […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/shaping-transformations-goethe-university-honors-researchers/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:47:17 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=86447 This year’s “Scientist of the Year” award goes to medical professionals Maria Vehreschild and Thomas Oellerich, while the “New Horizon – President’s Prize“ is awarded to the startup Modulux 3D. […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/protacs-disposal-as-therapy/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=86235 Pharmacist Manfred Schubert-Zsilavecz explains the new active substances. Until now, almost all medications have influenced disease processes by either replacing missing molecules or blocking malfunctioning molecules (or their production). A […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/the-role-of-lipids-in-cardiovascular-diseases/ Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:54:44 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=86230 “Identification of membrane targets for lipid species containing esterified EETs (ELS)” – New Koselleck Project at Goethe University Frankfurt explores unresolved research question Lipids are not just energy sources and […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/a-training-space-for-future-pharmacists/ Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:01:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=85213 In the training pharmacy and with the online tool “MyDispense,” pharmacy students can test and expand their counseling and professional skills. In a side hallway of Building N260 on Riedberg […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/rna-researchers-from-frankfurt-and-grenoble-receive-franco-german-science-award/ Fri, 27 Jun 2025 06:59:02 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=84586 RNA researchers Prof. Stefanie Kaiser from Goethe University Frankfurt and Dr. Eva Kowalinski from EMBL in Grenoble, France, have been awarded the Franco-German science prize “Prix Forcheurs Jean-Marie Lehn”. The […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/citizens-dialog-with-a-focus-on-science/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 09:56:22 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=78685 Prof. Samir Mitragotri is this year’s Friedrich Merz Guest Professor Have you ever wondered what it would be like if, sometime in the future, medicines could travel like personalized messengers […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/four-early-career-researchers-honored-with-2023-frankfurt-prize-for-environment-and-sustainability/ Tue, 18 Jul 2023 08:13:07 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=73313 Award recognizes work in the field of environmental and socio-ecological sustainability research at Goethe University Frankfurt. This year’s „Frankfurter Preis für Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit 2023” [Frankfurt Prize for Environment and […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/pharma-research-mild-bee-venom-shows-greater-application-potential/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:01:07 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=66689 Honeybee venom has been used in traditional medicine for centuries as an anti-inflammatory. Only its main component, melittin, has been scientifically well researched. However, with its strong effect, the natural […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/active-resolution-of-inflammation-no-evidence-that-specialized-lipid-messengers-are-involved/ Wed, 20 Apr 2022 11:19:35 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=57723 Contrary to a concept propagated for almost 30 years, specialized pro-resolving lipid mediators, which our body forms from polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids, evidently do not actively stop inflammation. Although such […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/sars-cov-2-research-second-possible-effective-mechanism-of-remdesivir-discovered/ Mon, 10 May 2021 13:03:35 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=50830 When a cell is infected, SARS-CoV-2 not only causes the host cell to produce new virus particles. The virus also suppresses host cell defence mechanisms. The virus protein nsP3 plays […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/goethe-university-to-be-part-of-life-science-cooperation-belab2122-between-academic-research-and-industry-partners/ Tue, 13 Apr 2021 06:57:23 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=50310 Evotec SE announced today that the Company has launched beLAB2122, a translational $ 20 million BRIDGE in collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. beLAB2122 brings together leading academic institutions from the […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/pharmaceutical-research-when-active-substance-and-target-protein-embrace-each-other/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 12:31:57 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=48882 Scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt, together with colleagues from Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Oxford and Dundee (UK), have investigated how the fit of potent inhibitors to their binding sites can be optimised […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/trna-fragments-are-involved-in-poststroke-immune-reactions/ Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:27:02 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=48190 An ischemic stroke is an extreme disturbance of the homeostasis of brain and body. Among other things, the immune system triggers an inflammatory reaction that can either overshoot or turn […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/a-cancer-shredder-substance-with-new-mechanism-of-action-found/ Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:01:36 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=46391 Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt and the university of Würzburg have developed a new compound for treating cancer. It destroys a protein that triggers its development. The villain in this […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/interdisciplinary-team-from-frankfurt-and-jena-develops-new-nanosheet-process/ Mon, 20 Jul 2020 10:50:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=45317 An interdisciplinary team from Frankfurt and Jena has developed a kind of bait with which to fish protein complexes out of mixtures. Thanks to this “bait”, the desired protein is […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/new-consortium-eubopen-will-provide-tools-to-unlock-disease-biology/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 14:28:19 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=44606 Almost twenty years after deciphering the human genome, our understanding of human disease is still far from complete. One of the most powerful and versatile tools to better understand biology […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/joint-study-shows-sex-specific-processes-in-schizophrenia-and-bipolar-disorder/ Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:26:37 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=40278 Recent studies have found a high genetic similarity of the psychiatric diseases schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, whose disease-specific changes in brain cells show an overlap of more than 70 percent. […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/thirteen-goethe-university-researchers-among-most-highly-cited/ Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:48:41 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=34237 Every year, a list is published of the top one percent of researchers worldwide, based on the frequency with which their work is cited by other scientists according to data […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/what-are-the-alternatives-to-animal-testing/ Wed, 21 Nov 2018 14:21:12 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=33968  How predictive are animal models for the human body? Which human organs can be recreated in vitro? How can personalized medicine benefit from patient-specific organ systems in the future? These […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/preserving-fertility-during-chemotherapy/ Tue, 17 Apr 2018 12:15:16 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=28393 One of the most significant impairments of the quality of life after a chemotherapy is infertility. Researchers of the Goethe University and the University Tor Vergata in Rome have now […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/rna-a-vicious-pathway-to-cancer/ Mon, 21 Aug 2017 11:41:06 +0000 http://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=20807 The role of faulty RNA molecules will be analyzed by Goethe University’s Prof. Rolf Marschalek / Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) will fund the project with 1.25 million Euro. According to the […]]]>