Robert Zweigerdt, co-spokesperson for the programme from the MHH Clinic for Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery. The networking of young, excellent scientists with clinical questions and

genotype, long suspected to be found only in rats, has now been detected in patients after organ transplantation. "Some infected people show no symptoms at all, while others can become severely ill," explains

es for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO) at the MHH Clinic for Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery. His laboratory is also part of the REBIRTH Research Centre for Translational

specifically switch off genes in order to protect us from attack by certain viruses or to make transplants invisible to the recipient's immune system," says Professor Büning. “We really are on the threshold

with a maximum care hospital with a supra-regional catchment area. Its research focuses on transplantation and stem cell research/regenerative medicine, infection and immunity research as well as biomedical

fungus found everywhere in the environment. In immunocompromised people - for example, after transplantation or severe respiratory illnesses such as influenza or COVID-19 – the fungus can enter the lungs

and senior physician in the Department of Hematology, Hemostaseology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation at the MHH. State-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic procedures allow patients to plan their

are treated where the entire spectrum of diagnostic and therapeutic options, including liver transplantation, interventional local procedures and systemic therapies, are offered. And this is only offered

lead to abnormal scarring (fibrosis) of the liver, which can end in cirrhosis and require an organ transplant. For successful treatment, the disease must be detected as early as possible. A research team led

first funding period were, for example, the non-animal safety assessment of gene therapies or transplants from other species, the digestive tract - especially the oral mucosa, intestine and liver - and