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We’re pleased to announce that the research of our EmpkinS Collaborative Research Center was awarded at this year's IEEE Biomedical and Health Informatics Conference (BHI ’23) (https://bhi.embs.org/2023/) in Pittsburgh, USA!   The paper “Markerless RGB-D hand pose estimation for activity ...

Sara Bayat and Anna-Maria Liphardt (D01) were interviewed by Gesundheit Erlangen. Check out their post here: Gesundheit erlangen - Herbst 2023 (gesundheit-erlangen.com)

The Institute of Applied Dynamics (LTD) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, offers several student theses: Topics: “Dynamic simulation of human hand movements and analysis of biomarkers for inflammatory arthritis” Supervisors: M. Sc. Simon Heinrich For more information, ch...

We're thrilled to share that Viktoria Heimann, a part of our B01 team, has earned her Ph.D. last week. Congratulations, Dr. Viktoria Heimann, on this achievement! 🎉👩‍🎓 Viktoria's doctoral advisor, Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup, has been instrumental in guiding her throughout her academic journey. ...

Interdisciplinary Hand Symposium on October 4th and 5th 2023 Within the research activities of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1483 - EmpkinS (funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), www.empkins.de), the Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Universitä...

On July 28, 2023, the 16th Wissenschaftstag (Science Day) of the Metropolitan Region Nuremberg took center stage, with a spotlight on the theme "Mensch im Zentrum: Gesundheit – Innovation – Verantwortung" (Human at the Center: Health - Innovation - Responsibility). At this prestigious event, our CRC...

From 30.6 to 1.7, the Chair of Systematic Theology II (Ethics), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, held an expert discussion on the topic "Solidarity in a Digital World. Intersectional dimensions of feminist-theological ethics". The two-day symposium opened with a public lecture by Prof. Hille Haker (Loyola Uni...

We are looking for participants for our D02 sub-project. We need 256 participants in total and 128 individuals with a current depressive episode. We would greatly appreciate if you took part in our study or forward this information to someone who might be interested! Participants can receive up to 4...

Prof. Katharina Schultebraucks from the NYU Grossmann School of Medicine gave a talk on "Scalable, automated, and feasible risk stratification of adverse mental health effects" on Thursday, June 22, 2023, at 12:30 at Carl-Thiersch-Straße 2b in Erlangen. Digital technologies and advances in computat...