News 2019

Members of the Cluster of Excellence "Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation" (PMI) have decoded a mechanism, how specific intestinal microbiota exacerbate inflammatory diseases at other body sites, such as the lungs. The lung tissue used for the study comes from the...

A new study by DZHK researchers from LMU Munich shows that the protein ApoE plays a key role in the pathogenesis of diseases associated with chronic inflammation, and identifies a new target for therapeutic strategies against atherosclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease.

5,000 patients are currently participating in the clinical trials of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK). The DZHK aims to use these studies to develop new therapies for cardiac failure, heart attacks and atrial fibrillation. Patients participating in clinical...

Exercise programmes for diabetics are a cost effective treatment and should be reimbursed.

Scientists from the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) have found that the use of the Impella heart pump does not reduce the number of deaths in people with cardiogenic shock after a heart attack. This is the result...