The Göttingen Campus

The Göttingen location has come to be synonymous with high-quality international research. To ensure that this remains the case in the future, the University of Göttingen, including the University Medical Center, and seven non-university local research centres have joined forces to form the Göttingen Campus.

By drawing on their joint strengths and potential, campus partners have created a unique and stimulating environment that encourages diversity and an active exchange between professors, researchers and doctoral students.

Across the Göttingen Campus, there are currently more than 5,900 researchers working in nearly every scientific discipline.

Within the Göttingen Campus, the quality of teaching and training of early career scientists is assured and continuously improved by joint graduate programmes and inter-institute junior research groups.

Science on campus benefits from excellent joint third-party funded projects and 23 joint professorships between the University and non-university institutions.

Latest news

  • Astrocytes - guardians of the brain

    Astrocytes help to understand the evolution of the human brain
    Astrocytes appear to play a more important role in the evolution of the brain than previously thought. A team of researchers led by Aleksandra Pękowska from the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw has discovered new genes and mechanisms that contribute to this process. The study, in which Rüdiger Behr from the German Primate Center was also involved, was published in the journal Cell Stem Cell. Astrocytes are star-shaped cells in…

    DPZ

  • Protection for small-scale producers and the environment?

    Researchers investigate certificates promising sustainability for cocoa cultivation in Ghana
    Sustainability certificates such as Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance and Cocoa Life promise to improve the livelihoods of small-scale cocoa producers while preserving the biodiversity on their plantations. Together with the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, researchers from the University of Göttingen have investigated whether sustainability certificates actually achieve both these goals. To find out, they carried out an analysis within…

    Uni

  • Animal studies confirm the safety and effectiveness of the heart patch

    Milestone in the treatment of severe heart failure
    Results from rhesus macaques provide solid ground for a first-in-human investigation of heart repair with stem cell-derived engineered heart muscle. The study is a milestone for the clinical application of the 'heart patch' as an innovative treatment option for patients with advanced heart failure. This is how the heart patch worksImplantation of a tissue engineered heart patch, called engineered heart muscle (EHM), is developed to repair the…

    MBExC

  • Ceres: Building Blocks of Life Delivered from Space

    The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior.
    The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them. In the journal AGU Advances, a group of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany presents the most comprehensive analysis to date of this mysterious material and its geological context. To this end, the team for…

    MPI mps

  • Old Moon with a Young Crust

    The Moon is much older than previously thought. Its crust was reheated after its formation - and has thus misled researchers in determining its age.
    The Moon is apparently quite reluctant to reveal its age. Attempts to uncover its secret have yielded estimates that lie several hundred million years apart: While some researchers suggest that our cosmic companion was formed 4.35 billion years ago, others date its birth to 4.51 billion years ago. One of the most striking inconsistencies is of a stony nature: almost all lunar rock samples point to the younger age. But a few rare crystals of…

    MPI mps