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Four teams of leading scientists from the UK, Germany and the Netherlands will collaborate on projects to accelerate progress in the detection and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The British Heart Foundation (BHF), the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) and...

For young researchers, leading their junior research group is an important step towards scientific independence. Heart-lung specialist Dr. Jana Grune of the German Heart Center at Charité in Berlin and molecular biologist Dr. Pieterjan Dierickx from the Max Planck Institute for...

A DZHK research team at the University Medical Center Mainz has discovered a new signaling pathway of the coagulation system that controls scar formation after a heart attack. If this signaling pathway could be inhibited, heart attacks could heal with less subsequent damage.

Prof. Benjamin Meder has accepted the call to the W3 professorship "Precision Digital Health" at Heidelberg University. Within the framework of the research professorship, his focus is on molecular and digital biomarkers, the use of artificial intelligence in everyday clinical...

The German Center for Cardiovascular Research is centralizing its biospecimens collections, which are currently stored at 60 sites. Therefore, it is looking for two biobanks as scientific cooperation partners. Applications are now open to all German biobanks.

Heart tissue consists of different cell types. If the tissue is healthy, the cells "chat" extensively with their neighbors, exchanging information via receptors and ligands. In old and diseased hearts, this no longer seems to work well. A young research team from Frankfurt has...

Research group led by Heidelberg University Hospital identified enzyme that modifies motor proteins of heart muscle cells and thus influences their function / Results published in Nature Communications

Patients with heart failure frequently also suffer from atrial fibrillation. Their heart then beats irregularly and often too fast, further worsening the heart failure , which may lead to hospitalization. A study funded by the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) is...

In a study conducted by the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), scientists are investigating a heart valve replacement made of the patient's own tissue, which is unique worldwide according to the current state of knowledge. The goal is to obtain safe implants that...

Many diseases progress differently in women and men. There are often differences in the way they develop. This also applies to cardiovascular diseases. The reason for this has not yet been clarified. Dr. Daniel Andergassen suspects that part of the answer lies in the sex...