31/07/2026
This February we had the opportunity to fly to Germany 🇩🇪 to tour around Fresenius Medical Care - The world’s largest manufacturer of haemodialysis machines ⚙️ .
It was a bright and early start, with 20 lucky MPBE students assembling at Stansted Airport for 6am ⏰✈️ to catch a flight to Nuremberg Airport.
After a short flight, we travelled on the U-bahn into the city 🚊, where we did a bit of exploring before having a traditional Bavarian lunch at Bratwurstglöcklein 🥨🍽️.
We then made our way to Würzburg where we were staying and got settled in. We spent a few days in the city, sightseeing and sampling lots of local food and drink 🥘🥔🍺(bratwurst and potato salad were enjoyed by all 🙂) before heading down for our visit to Fresenius Medical Care’s flagship R&D and manufacturing site.
Here we got to speak with industry leaders and experts (including a video message from UCL alumni and Global Chief Medical Officer: Charles Hughes Jones) and ask lots of questions 🗯️ ! We toured the facility and got to see first hand some of the the research and work going on at Fresenius 🔬. This was lead by Arne Peters who was a fantastic guide!
Massive thank you to our Outreach Manager Catharina for all the hard work that went into organising this trip ❤️ (and her excellent German 👏)! Stay tuned to see what we have planned for this year 👀👀
