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In the future, The German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) will cooperate with the Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects and the Competence Network on Atrial Fibrillation. Parts of the scientific infrastructures of the two competence networks are planned to be...

Atherosclerosis, an inflammatory reaction, is at the root of the most common forms of cardiovascular disease. DZHK researchers from Munich have now identified a microRNA that plays a prominent role in the process, and offers a promising target for new therapies. ...

DZHK researcher Prof. Christian Weber and other researchers from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich have, for the first time, elucidated how cells that promote the development of atherosclerosis find their way to the blood vessel wall, where they stimulate the formation of...

Already on 20th of April 2012 the prices were handed over to Professor Martin Borgrefe, director of the 1. Medical Clinic, and Professor Dobromir Dobrev, director of the Department of Experimental Cardiology - both from the University Medicine Mannheim. Both professors have been...

Main themes of this innovation forum are the questions how to expedite the translation of the research results into clinical praxis and what kind of possibilities exist in the collaboration with physicians and the industry.

The German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK)...