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On their annual meeting at 10^th April 2015, the members of the German Society of Cardiology (DGK) elected Hugo Katus from the DZHK partner site Heidelberg/Mannheim as the new DGK president. He will take office in 2017.

For the current legislature, Karl-Heinz Kuck from the...

In February, the German Atrial Fibrillation Network (AFNET) enrolled the first patients in the AXAFA – AFNET 5 trial. The trial is designed to test whether novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) are also suitable for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation patients undergoing...

The German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) issues its first call for Junior Research Group Leaders. 

Young investigators working around the world in the field of cardiovascular research are invited to apply. Your research topic should fit in with the strategy of the...

The safety of new drugs cannot be predicted without the use of animal testing, yet. Researchers at the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) in collaboration with colleagues from Great Britain and the Netherlands want to investigate whether artificial heart tissue can...

Basierend auf der Datenbank des Web of Science hat das Laborjournal (10/2014) für die Jahre 2008-2012 eine Publikationsanalyse zur Kategorie „Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems“ durchgeführt. Das Ergebnis ist erfreulich: Insgesamt gehören im besagten Zeitraum 17 DZHK-PI und drei...

The impact of the environment on our genetic makeup has long been a topic of discussion among researchers. Now a European consortium (EURATRANS) headed by DZHK-PI Professor Norbert Hübner of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch has taken the opposite...