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The German Council of Science and Humanities has given the German Centers for Health Research (DZG) a positive assessment in recognition of the DZG’s…

DZHK professor Oliver Soehnlein from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München recently received two awards for his scientific achievements.

Prof. Holger Gerhardt of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) and an international team of collaborators receive a $6 million grant…

In the gut of patients with heart failure, important groups of bacteria are found less frequently and the gut flora is not as diverse as in healthy…

Defined Engineered Human Myocardium With Advanced Maturation for Applications in Heart Failure Modeling and Repair. Circulation. 2017;135:1832–1847.…

The loss of a loved one, a dispute with your neighbour, infections or a fall – mental and physical stress can be triggers of a broken heart (broken…

The number of patients with an artificial heart has drastically risen in the last ten years. This affects several thousand people in Germany alone.…

Functional Characterization of the GUCY1A3 Coronary Artery Disease Risk Locus, Circulation, doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.024152, DZHK authors:…

Strong or weak, big or small – variations in our genome play a decisive part in how our heart is shaped and works. Scientists of the German Centre for…

LMU researchers led by Christian Weber (Principle Investigator at the DZHK) show that the chemokine receptor CXCR4 protects the integrity of arterial…