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Mathematician, physicist and information scientist Prof. Fabian Theis has won the 2023 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.The award is considered the most prestigious research prize in Germany and is awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG); it is endowed with 2.5 million...

An international team of scientists, including those from the University of Lübeck and the Technical University of Munich, is linking dozens of new gene loci to coronary heart disease (CHD) risk, pioneering research into the biological causes of common diseases.

Researchers now know that atherosclerosis - deposits on the inner wall of blood vessels - causes inflammatory processes in the body. These processes trigger the immune system and ultimately derail the body's defenses. Munich scientists have identified a protein that can slow down...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a collaborative research center with around 14.3 million euros to investigate mechanisms by which blood vessels control the function of organs. The deputy spokesperson is Professor Dr. Gergana Dobreva from the University Medical...

With this funding, the EU supports scientists at an early stage of their career. Two of a total of 408 grants have been awarded to DZHK scientists this year: Dr Gabriele G. Schiattarella from the DZHK partner site in Berlin is investigating the molecular mechanisms of heart...

16 scientists of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) are among the most cited researchers worldwide and thus among the most influential experts in their field of research. The list of "Highly Cited Researchers" is published every year by the analysis company...

Research group led by Heidelberg University Hospital identified enzyme that modifies motor proteins of heart muscle cells and thus influences their function / Results published in Nature Communications

If everything goes optimally, the new heart centre at Heidelberg University Hospital could go into operation as early as 2029. The state of Baden-Württemberg supports the construction project and, on Tuesday, October 25, declared its support for the importance of the planned new...

An overactive enzyme that causes an inherited form of high blood pressure also appears to protect against hypertension-induced cardiac damage. A team of researchers from the Max Delbrück Center, ECRC, and DZHK led by Enno Klußmann explains in the journal Circulation how this...

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann from the Greifswald University Hospital was elected as the new chairman of the DNVF at the beginning of October. He will thus head the ten-member board of the German Network for Health Services Research (DNVF) for the next two years. Hoffmann has been...