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Faculty of Medicine and UKSH Kiel receive 1.4 million Euros research funding from the EU

The fatty acid propionate helps defend against the effects of high blood pressure, including atherosclerosis and heart tissue remodeling, a study on mice has found. Gut bacteria produce the substance – which calms the immune cells that drive up blood pressure – from natural...

New German research shows that beating human heart muscle can be grown in a laboratory from donated skin cells. The study, published in Stem Cell Reports and part-funded by the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), could lead to personalised treatments for heart...

In 2018, these 14 researchers of the DZHK will be among the one percent of the most cited scientists worldwide. This is the result of Clarivate Analytics' list of "Highly Cited Researchers":

Ackermann, Lutz | Göttingen | Chemistry

Anker, Stefan D. | Berlin | Clinical Medicine ...

An international team headed up by researchers from Munich University Hospital (LMU), in which scientists from the DZHK were also involved, has successfully transplanted genetically modified pig hearts into baboons for the first time, with long-term, life-sustaining results. The...

Scientists at the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) were the first to show that Empagliflozin, a diabetes drug, directly affects the human heart muscle and improves heart function. The results provide hope for the treatment of heart failure with preserved pump...

The Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich is supporting young doctors to carry out medical research by expanding its clinical research and training program to include vascular research. The LMU and the University Hospital of Munich are partner...

The German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) has received a donation of €400,000 to fund a research position that will study cardiac genetics at the Children's Heart Center of Kiel University Hospital in Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH).

When is high blood pressure dangerous? Medical associations offer widely differing answers. In the USA, for example, patients are seen as hypertensive much sooner than in Germany. A team working with Prof. Karl-Heinz Ladwig of the Technical University of Munich and the Helmholtz...

A new study from the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) is investigating whether a known drug could bring hope to the millions of people living with heart failure. There is currently no cure for some forms of heart failure and doctors can only treat the symptoms and...