Funding (Selection): CardioReGenix : Development of Next-Generation Gene Therapies for Cardiovascular Disease Duration: January 1, 2019 - June 30, 2024 TRAIN-HEART : RNA therapeutics for heart failure

We always look for dedicated and highly motivated MD, PhD students and postdocs. Hannover Medical School is the only "medical faculty" in Germany which hosts such a large number of structured doctoral

Viral Vectors We primarily employ integrating lentiviral and retroviral vectors, as well as non-integrating adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based particles for gene delivery. For example, we used lentivi

Heart Failure & Remodeling Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome with a multifaceted pathophysiology. It is a severe condition resulting from ventricular dysfunction, and its prevalence is incr

Disease Modeling Recreating diseases in a dish Disease modeling using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) is a powerful and evolving approach in biomedical research. Patient- or donor-derive

Living Organ Slices Our primary research focus is the advancement and refinement of the living myocardial slice (LMS) platform, a physiologically relevant model for studying cardiac function and disea