ERC Synergy Grant
Award year: 2018
Category: Award / Honour
Type: ERC Synergy Grant
Awarding organization: Europäischer Forschungsrat (ERC)
When bones break more easily in old age, osteoporosis is often to blame. However, the cause of the disease and how it develops is not yet sufficiently understood. An interdisciplinary team of scientists at FAU led by Prof. Dr. Andreas Maier and Prof. Dr. Georg Schett and the Helmholtz Zentrum für Materialien und Energie in Berlin (HZB) is now developing a new imaging process to solve this problem and facilitate successful treatment more quickly. The aim of the new process is to enable x-ray microscopy to be carried out on living subjects.