the EU for primary cancer prevention, but unfortunately they don't always work everywhere," says Professor Dr. Heiner Wedemeyer, director of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectiology and [...] but also of chronic inflammation, which increases the risk of a variety of cancers," explains Professor Dr. Uwe Tegtbur. The sports physician has already proven this in several studies. "In a cooperation [...] alone, around 20 million people have non-alcoholic fatty liver, mostly due to severe obesity," says Professor Wedemeyer. If left untreated, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) can develop into inflammation

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

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

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.

Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO) at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) and LEBAO director Professor Dr. Ulrich Martin, now want to develop a new therapy in which damaged tissue areas can be repaired [...] tissue and improve organ function in animal models as part of the iCARE project coordinated by Professor Martin. In the new research project HEAL, the strategies for producing and administering the iPS [...] gene into the iPS cells that can be activated if the applied cells degenerate in the body," says Professor Martin. "In the end, we want to produce safe cell products that can also be produced on a large

first time, we have an approach to combat the virus directly without major side effects," explains Professor Dr Thomas Skripuletz, senior physician at the MHH Department of Neurology. The solution lies in [...] cells are HLA-compatible, i.e. have the same tissue characteristics as the recipients," explains Professor Dr. Britta Eiz-Vesper, immunologist at the MHH Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Transplant [...] means we are well on our way from a non-treatable disease to a successful PML therapy," emphasises Professor Skripuletz. This is all the more important, he says, as the disease is probably too seldom in the

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