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DFG Funding Atlas:
University of Hohenheim in Top Group for Agricultural Funding [19.10.2022]
A university that makes a lot of its research dollars: In terms of DFG funding for agricultural research, the Universities of Hohenheim and Bonn have remained in 2nd place. The front-runner is the University of Göttingen. Measured by its research results, the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart even takes first place in Germany. The ranking by funding can be found in the...more
THE World University Ranking 2023:
University of Hohenheim remains one of the best 250 universities worldwide [17.10.2022]
Small and excellent: The University of Hohenheim is among the 14 percent of the world's best universities in the current World University Ranking. The British magazine “Times Higher Education” (THE) published this annual ranking on 12 October 2022. Nearly 1,800 top universities from 104 countries were ranked this year. It is an evaluation of the entire university. The...more
For Animal Welfare & Environmental Protection:
State lays cornerstone for new "HoLMiR" research center [11.10.2022]
More animal welfare and better animal health, more climate protection and less environmental impact: Researchers at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart are pursuing these goals with a new approach: They are exploring the interplay between farm animals and the millions of microorganisms in the animals’ digestive tracts. The federal and state governments are supporting the...more
Microalgae:
Possible prospects for agriculture [16.08.2022]
Will German agriculture rely on microalgae in the future? In any case, numerous valuable recyclables can be produced with the single-cell aquatic plants. Consequently, they possess great potential as a renewable raw material and biomass source for the bioeconomy. In the collaborative project "FuTuReS", researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and...more
Microbiome therapy:
Success factors for fecal transplantations [08.08.2022]
Treatment of patients with antibiotics and colonic irrigation prior to fecal transplantation promotes the colonization of donor bacteria. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart. Prof. Dr. W. Florian Fricke and Daniel Podlesny from the Department of Microbiome and Applied Bioinformatics, together with other researchers, developed...more