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Internationalization is an important topic not only at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). It shapes academic work and life at universities all around the globe. On Tuesday, November 20, TUM's Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) will host a lecture and panel discussion on this topic.

B cells are important in helping the immune system fight pathogens. However, in the case of the neurological autoimmune disease Multiple Sclerosis (MS) they can damage nerve tissue. When particular control cells are missing, too many B cells accumulate in the meninges, resulting in inflammation of the central nervous system. A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) demonstrated the process using animal and patient samples.

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, will join the EuroTech Universities Alliance as of January 1, 2019. The announcement follows the accession of France’s École Polytechnique to the Alliance in June 2018. This step increase in the Alliance’s membership base will further strengthen its position as pioneer for inter-university collaboration.

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology, and the University of Hohenheim have developed a new methodical approach. It allows for the faster identification of flavor-giving protein fragments in foods such as cheese or yogurt, thus optimizing production processes.

Digitized research produces enormous amounts of data these days. This increasingly complex flood of data contains great potential, for example for biomedicine. However, big data needs to be controlled and interpreted in order to become usable. To this end, the next generation of researchers will soon be trained at the newly founded Munich School for Data Science @ Helmholtz, TUM & LMU (MuDS).

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is Germany's top university for founders. This is shown by the "Deutsche Startup Monitor 2018", in which TUM was able to defend its top position from last year and further increase the proportion of founders included in the ranking.

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana will become partners in innovation and sustainable development. The agreement institutionalizes and expands the previous collaboration between the two universities. The strategic partnership is an important part of the widely varied spectrum of TUM's involvement in Africa and launched last weekend by a delegation led by Prof. Juliane Winkelmann, TUM Vice President for International Alliances and Alumni, in Kumasi/ Ghana. 

In recognition of her outstanding scientific achievements in the fields of Bioorganic, Organometallic and Medicinal Chemistry, the Bavarian city of Burghausen has presented the Burghausen Chemistry Award to Prof. Angela Casini (Cardiff/GB). She is Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the Technical University of Munich's (TUM) Institute for Advanced Study. The award, also referred to as the "Chemie Diamant" ("Chemistry Diamond") is endowed with a €20,000 prize.

To celebrate the launch of its Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MSRM), the Technical University of Munich (TUM) hosted a high-caliber robotics congress with international guests and a big opening ceremony at the Pinakothek der Moderne.  Alongside the researchers and politicians in attendance, the spotlight at the event was also on the machines themselves.

The number of students at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has more than doubled over the past 15 years. Notwithstanding considerable investments by the Free State of Bavaria, the number of lecture hall seats has not kept pace with this growth. A new auditorium building now relieves situation on the Garching campus.