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Senior Professor at the University of Heidelberg and long-standing spokesman for the DZHK: Prof. Dr. Hugo A. Katus as a pioneer of myocardial infarction diagnostics has been honoured with the highest award of the state of Baden-Württemberg / Further prestigious awards: Carl...

At the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), clinical study data and samples belong not to individual clinics but to a superordinate structure - the DZHK. The basis for this is the collaborative clinical research platform launched ten years ago, which makes data and...

Congratulations! At the 89th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Cardiology (DGK), numerous DZHK scientists were honored.

Brown bears as well as paraplegics utilise a mechanism that prevents the formation of blood clots. The discovery is far-reaching and could open up new therapeutic options. Immobilised acute patients could benefit from this. The study results of the international research team led...

The world's only clinical trial to implant artificial heart tissue in patients with heart failure to permanently strengthen the heart muscle has reached its first important milestone: the determination of the maximum safe dose could be completed after the treatment of 10...

Heart failure is one of the leading causes of death. Approximately one million people with heart failure also suffer from atrial fibrillation, a heart rhythm disorder that causes uncontrolled impulses in the atria and irregular heartbeats. This arrhythmia can usually be...

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women and men worldwide. However, there are numerous differences between the hearts of the two sexes. The new junior research group of the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) led by PD Dr. Claudia Crocini is...

It is a unique process in German health research: 20 experts and patients have worked together on a roadmap to systematically expand active patient participation in medical research.

A leaking mitral valve can be repaired surgically or with catheter-based techniques. A so-called mitral valve prolapse is particularly common, in which part of the valve protrudes (prolapses) into the left atrium. The American PRIMARY study investigates which method is most...

This is what ideal medicine would look like: Doctors could specifically alter molecular processes in diseased cells in the body and thus causally cure patients. This is the goal of the German Centers for Health Research (DZG) in the project "Cell type specific targeting for...