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Car2Car Successfully Completed: New Impulses for Circular Material Loops in the Automotive Industry
The Car2Car research project has been successfully completed. Together with partners from academia and industry, the project investigated how materials from end-of-life vehicles can be recovered at high quality and reused in new vehicle applications.…
Successful Habilitation of Dr. Corinna Urmann: Natural Products for Drug Discovery
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability has reached another academic milestone: Dr. Corinna Urmann successfully completed her habilitation at Technical University of Munich (TUM) last week with…
Dr. Nikita Genze Awarded the Straubinger Hochschulpreis for His Thesis: Combating Weeds with Patience and AI
When people talk about artificial intelligence, many first think of ChatGPT, self-driving cars, and successful tech companies. AI has long been a part of the modern workplace and everyday life. It almost seems as if the technology provides us humans…
Sustainable protein supply: Turning solar power into protein
According to United Nations projections, global food demand could increase by around 60 percent by 2050, while only about two percent additional agricultural land is expected to become available. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich…
Students explore innovation landscape at the port of Straubing: Cycling to the bioeconomy of tomorrow
Last Friday, around 50 students and researchers from the TUM Campus Straubing (TUMCS) experienced how closely science, entrepreneurship and industrial application are connected in Straubing. The group cycled from the campus in Uferstraße to the…
Researchers Refute Decades-Old Assumption in Polymer Biotechnology: Rethinking Bioplastics
For decades, it was considered a given in research that microorganisms produce the bioplastic poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB for short) exclusively in a strictly regular molecular structure. However, it is precisely this order that makes the material…
Ceremonial state reception Marking the 25th Anniversary of KoNaRo: Straubing a beacon of the bioeconomy
There were three reasons to celebrate at this year's C.A.R.M.E.N. symposium. In addition to the two awards with the Renewable Resources Award 2025 and the Ernst Pelz Prize 2025, the 25th anniversary of the Competence Center for Renewable Resources…
TUM Campus Straubing Students Visit Vienna: Policy and Innovation in Practice
From 23 to 24 June, a delegation of 16 students from TUM Campus Straubing (TUMCS) traveled to Vienna to explore the interplay between innovation management and political frameworks as part of the “Policy and Innovation” course by Prof. Dr. Claudia…