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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 unbureaucratically.

The DZHK is following the initiative of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). It aims to help refugees with...

One of the most common causes of sudden cardiac death in young people is a genetic condition known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). However, it is difficult to assess the risk of sudden cardiac death among people with this condition using current methods. The National...

Too much salt in food can influence the immune system. In a study published recently in the Journal of Clinical Investigation*, the DZHK researchers Professor Dominik Müller and Prof. Norbert Hübner establish that increased salt consumption by rodents leads to delayed healing of...

Electrical signals in the heart are responsible for regulating its pumping action. Investigators from the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) have for the first time succeeded in visualizing these signals in the beating heart. To do so, they use a fluorescent protein...

Today, 21^st May 2015 the CATCH ME (Characterizing Atrial fibrillation by Translating its Causes into Health Modifiers in the Elderly) EU research consortium was launched in at the office of the European Society of Cardiology office in Brussels with the involvement of...

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 Heidelberg/Mannheim as the new DGK president. He will take office in 2017.

For the current legislature, Karl-Heinz Kuck from the...