Decoding the Arrow of Time in Living Tissue

An international consortium including LMU physicist Erwin Frey has been awarded a €10 million grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to build the physics that predicts — and steers — how living tissues form, stay healthy, and fail. About a quarter of the grant amount—approximately 2.5 million euros—goes to LMU.

“This funding demonstrates that pioneering research is taking place here, research that enables true innovation. It embodies what makes LMU unique: internationality, interdisciplinarity, and excellence—by combining groundbreaking experiments—long-term live imaging, measurements of the forces cells exert on one another, and optical and genetic tools to gently influence cells—with new physical theories,” says Prof. Dr. Benedikt Grothe, neurobiologist and vice president of LMU. Continue