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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…

In February, the German Atrial Fibrillation Network (AFNET) enrolled the first patients in the AXAFA – AFNET 5 trial. The trial is designed to test…

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

Young investigators working around…

Prof. Dr. Vera Regitz-Zagrosek has been honored with an honorary doctorate from the Medical University of Innsbruck (Austria) on 25th October 2014 for…

The safety of new drugs cannot be predicted without the use of animal testing, yet. Researchers at the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research…

Stefan Hell of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 for the invention of…