News 2018

If several coronary vessels are dangerously narrowed, patients are often treated with a bypass operation. In other words, vascular grafts are fashioned that redirect vital oxygenated blood around the blocked sections to the heart. The patients’ veins are often used as bypass...

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An international consortium including researchers from Munich's DZHK has been awarded 6 million dollars from the French-American Leducq Foundation. The researchers are investigating the role of clonal proliferation of white blood cells in the development of atherosclerosis.

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In a recent study, scientists at the Department of Cardiology of University Medical Center Mainz have identified an enzyme responsible for aircraft-related vascular damage. They were also able to show that night-time noise has a particularly harmful effect and therefore demand...

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Cardiologists from Berlin and Wrocław to receive the award from the DFG and the Foundation for Polish Science / Award ceremony to take place on 25 October in Berlin

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When it first starts to develop, the heart is a simple tube. Reporting in the journal Nature Communications, researchers at MDC have now described how it forms itself into a its characteristic S-shape and how the ventricles and atria finally develop. Their findings will help...

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Scientists of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin are investigating a new concept for the treatment of heart failure in a study of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK). They want to treat the impaired energy metabolism in patients with heart failure and...

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As the level of noise increases, the incidence of atrial fibrillation increases dramatically. Scientists from the Department of Cardiology at the Mainz University Medical Center were able to prove this with data from the Gutenberg Health Study. They found that the incidence of...

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Ranking in Laborjournal: DZHK researchers among the 50 "most cited brains" in the field of Human Genetics.

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All awardees of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK): Congratulations!

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How new blood vessels are formed in mammals, for example, during development or after an injury, was previously not precisely known. Scientists of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) were now able to shed light on this process. They demonstrated that individual...

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