There is a buzz of excitement in the air: the new first-year students are flooding onto the campus and getting their orientation week under way. Among them are 200 medical students – more first-year students than ever before.

Research advisory boards bring citizens closer to science – and researchers closer to the lived reality of study participants. A visit with the advisory board of the Bremen-Oldenburg research training group HEARAZ.

From Thursday, around 200 medical ethicists will gather in Oldenburg to discuss medicine and time. Mark Schweda and Lena Stange explain why this connection is important, yet has so far received far too little attention.

A minor operation ten years ago, carried out on a pool table in the basement of a rural school camp, led Jannik Ohmes into the emergency medical services – and later into healthcare research.

A very special day for the University Medicine: Today’s ground-breaking ceremony marks the start of construction on much-needed research facilities and an anatomy.

University Medicine Oldenburg (UMO) is strengthening its collaboration on a new foundation. Today, the University of Oldenburg and the hospitales the hospitals have agreed to integrate their structures at management level as well.

The nursing shortage will be felt not only on the wards but also in the operating room. Researchers from the Northwest Alliance are working on new technologies designed to compensate for staff shortages.

Which methods can researchers use to analyse data sets in different disciplines particularly effectively? The newly founded "Scientific Centre for Methods of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science" (WiZArD) is looking into this.

The exact cause of congenital heart defects often remains unclear. Human geneticists in Oldenburg have now presented a method that allows them to reliably identify a specific genetic variant as causative.

Complications during pregnancy or childbirth can cause lasting damage to a child's brain functions. The search for risk factors and therapies combines basic and clinical research.

After legalisation: Oldenburg child and adolescent psychiatrist Yulia Golub, together with other researchers, is calling for prevention measures that actually reach vulnerable groups - especially young people.

On 1 January, the Hearing4all cluster began its third funding period - with a new face at the helm. Birger Kollmeier and his successor Christiane Thiel in an interview about the past and future of the cluster.

Researchers at University Medicine Oldenburg have developed an AI tool that delivers fewer false-positive results than conventional screening methods when testing bacteria for resistance to reserve antibiotics.

If a self-driving car behaves differently in a classic dilemma situation than test subjects would, this discrepancy becomes visible in brain activity. Researchers from the Department of Psychology have now been able to demonstrate this.

Oldenburg and Groningen are consolidating their cooperation in the field of health research under the umbrella of the Cross-Border Institute of Healthcare Systems and Prevention with a new cooperation agreement.

Exercise keeps you fit - but balance can be impaired after intensive physical activity. Researchers at University Medicine Oldenburg want to counteract this dilemma.

Drug and medical device research involving humans is subject to many legal requirements and complex authorisation procedures. The Coordination Centre for Clinical Trials provides support with planning and implementation.

Dr Daniel Kristanto wants to know what goes on in the human brain – not brains in general, but each individual brain. The University is now funding his "Individual Brain Project" for up to three years with a Carl von Ossietzky Young Researchers' Fellowship.

Time plays an important role in medical decisions at different stages of life. The German Research Foundation is funding research into these relationships for a further four years. New spokesperson is Mark Schweda. 

If you dial 112 for the emergency medical services in the Oldenburg area, the dispatchers won’t always send an ambulance. Since the pilot project Gemeindenotfallsanitäter was launched, they may decide to send a specially trained paramedic instead.