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The German Centre for Cardiovascular Disease wants to offer people who have been forced to flee their home countries jobs in research quickly and…

One of the most common causes of sudden cardiac death in young people is a genetic condition known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). However, it…

Too much salt in food can influence the immune system. In a study published recently in the Journal of Clinical Investigation*, the DZHK researchers…

Investigators evaluate over 45 studies and test themselves in an experiment.

When a person passes out after strenuous physical activity, doctors…

Electrical signals in the heart are responsible for regulating its pumping action. Investigators from the German Center for Cardiovascular Research…

The DZHK has announced the first two junior scientists who will lead their own independent research groups in the coming years. Dr. Lars Mägdefessel…

Prof. Johannes Backs from the DZHK partner site Heidelberg-Mannheim received the Outstanding Investigator Award of the Basic Cardiovascular Science…

Today, 21^st May 2015 the CATCH ME (Characterizing Atrial fibrillation by Translating its Causes into Health Modifiers in the Elderly) EU research cons…

About 70 percent of our genes provide the blueprint for biomolecules whose function is only now being discovered – non-coding RNAs. Instead of being…

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…