The UBT has been awarded funding for the Bavarian Network of Excellence project “Function by Design: Cellular Hybrids” on the topic of biomaterials, together with the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (JMU). Professor Thomas Scheibel from the Department of Biomaterials is the spokesperson of this network. The project is part of an 32 Mio EUR funding from the innovation offensive Hightech Agenda Bavaria and the acceleration programme Hightech Agenda Plus.