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An interdisciplinary team of clinicians and scientists has published a consensus paper recommending appropriate quantitative imaging techniques for coronary artery stenosis and atherosclerosis related treatment and procedural planning.

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DZHK scientist PD Dr Leo Nicolai from Munich has been awarded a junior research group in cardiovascular diseases by the Corona Foundation. The funding amounts to around 1 million euros over five years. The aim is to develop new therapeutic, diagnostic and prognostic approaches to...

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The foundation stone for the William B. Kannel Center for Community Medicine was laid yesterday in Greifswald. The new building, which will cost around 64.2 million euros, is intended to be a flagship for the Greifswald University Hospital. As an interdisciplinary centre for...

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The Max Delbrück Center in Berlin and the University of Heidelberg will combine their expertise in vascular and cardiac research and systems biology: Together, they are founding the Helmholtz Institute for Translational AngioCardioScience (HI-TAC) in Mannheim and Heidelberg. The...

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In patients with inflammatory cardiomyopathy, the heart muscle is permanently inflamed even though there is no viral infection. In the TRINITY-DZHK26 study, researchers are testing whether it helps to suppress the immune system with drugs for a limited period of time.

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Research teams around the world are searching for the causes of Long COVID. Scientists PD Dr Leo Nicolai, Dr Rainer Kaiser and Prof. Konstantin Stark from the Munich partner site of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) have now taken a closer look at...

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A mutation that causes severe hypertension also protects the kidneys from being damaged, reports a team led by Enno Klußmann of the Max Delbrück Center and the DZHK in “Kidney International”. The researchers are now exploring how the effects of the mutated gene can be used...

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15 DZHK researchers are among the top 100 scientists in the "Best Medicine Scientists in Germany" ranking. It is part of the World's Best Medicine Scientists Ranking, which was published by Research.com for the second time.

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Scientists are discovering more and more tasks performed by ribonucleic acids, or RNA for short, in the body. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Goethe University Frankfurt - both partner institutions in the DZHK - have been investigating the role of...

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