cited minds in German-language immunology research: MHH pneumologist Professor Dr Tobias Welte came sixth, while MHH haematologist Professor Dr Arnold Ganser, who will retire in 2022, came ninth. The analysis

movement to the school with fun and ease after the periods with little movement. Professor Tegtbur, a sports physician, and Professor Melk, a paediatrician, are in charge of the study. The interdisciplinary team [...] improved at the same time in the sense of early prevention against arteriosclerosis," emphasises Professor Dr. Dr. Anette Melk, senior physician at the Children's Clinic. "The activities led to a better [...] teachers. The sports physicians also advised the teachers on health and quality of life," adds Professor Dr Tegtbur, Director of the Institute of Sports Medicine. "Expanding such successful measures for

Therefore, there are still no drugs that can specifically promote healing. Now a research team led by Professor Dr. Kai Wollert, Head of Molecular and Translational Cardiology at the Department of Cardiology [...] reduces scarring "After a heart attack, the immune system reacts with an inflammatory response," Professor Wollert explains. "The inflammatory cells produce METRNL, which stimulates the KIT-positive vascular [...] drug that specifically supports heart repair. SERVICE: For further information, please contact Professor Dr. Kai Wollert, wollert.kai@mh-hannover.de , telephone (0511) 532-4055. The original paper "Me

performance. "The award is proof of the excellence of his work and a great honour for all of us," says Professor Dr Frank Bengel, Director from the Department of Nuclear Medicine. Better understanding and treating [...] heart attack, the immune system sends out inflammatory cells to allow the wound to heal," explains Professor Thackeray. However, if the inflammatory response is too strong, the heart muscle cells are damaged [...] was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 31. SERVICE: For more information, contact Professor Dr James Thackeray, thackeray.james@mh-hannover.de , telephone (0511) 532-3358.

targeted focus and proximity between clinical and research priorities," emphasises MHH President Professor Dr Michael Manns. Third-party funding is funding that the scientists obtain competitively with project [...] a divisional university like the MHH, the only independent medical university in Germany," says Professor Manns.

hearing prosthesis such as a cochlear implant (CI). Now, a German-American team of authors led by Professor Dr. Andrej Kral, Scientific Director of the Institute for Audio and Neurotechnology (VIANNA) at [...] is helpful for deaf people to better navigate the environment without an auditory sense," says Professor Kral. "But contrary to earlier assumptions, the neural connections to the auditory sense are not [...] is necessary because in congenital deafness, the hearing system itself cannot develop normally," Professor Kral explains. "If a child misses out on early hearing experiences, he or she loses many contact

measures increase the quality of life and improve the success of treatment,” explains project leader Professor Dr. Tillmann Krüger. The participants continue an already existing drug therapy parallel to the [...] “Patients treated on an outpatient basis are often poorly integrated in society and feel lonely,” says Professor Krüger. “Many of them are also impotent and have little joy in life.” This is where the Take Five [...] more effectively,” explains PhD student and project coordinator Saskia Hamers. The team headed by Professor Krüger wants to find out whether self-chosen measures can improve the well-being of schizophrenic

missing or too weak, the risk of pre-eclampsia increases significantly. A research team led by Professor Dr Frauke von Versen-Höynck, senior physician at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at [...] causes high blood pressure, often associated with increased protein excretion in the urine," says Professor von Versen-Höynck. In particularly severe cases, liver and kidney dysfunction and seizures can follow [...] placenta, cannot be detected in these pregnant women," says the physician. In the research project, Professor von Versen-Höynck and her team now want to examine and compare placenta and uterine mucosa samples

to repair tissues and organs, such as stem cell-based therapies and gene therapies," describes Professor Dr Nico Lachmann. The researcher at the MHH Clinic for Paediatric Pneumology, Allergology and N [...] innovations, while at the same time providing the tools for successful clinical translation," adds Professor Dr Dr Christine Happle, also a co-spokesperson, from the MHH Department of Paediatric Pneumology [...] vulnerable people from viral and bacterial infections. The spokesperson of the cluster of excellence is Professor Dr. Thomas Schulz, head of the MHH Institute of Virology. More information is available here: www

(HSCs) are massively involved in this tissue remodelling. An international research team led by Professor Dr. Ingmar Mederacke, Managing Senior Physician at the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology [...] cell death of hepatocytes and how exactly these molecules are related to fibrosis formation," says Professor Mederacke. The research team found out that certain stored, activated sugar molecules (UDP-glucose [...] thus reduce the development of liver fibrosis. SERVICE: For further information , please contact Professor Dr. Ingmar Mederacke, mederacke.ingmar@mh-hannover.de , phone (0511) 532-6619 The original paper