Henriettenstift Hannover Prof. Dr. med. Christian Hartmann, Institute of Pathology/Neuropathology, MHH Prof. Dr. med. Friedrich Feuerhake, Institute of Pathology/Neuropathology, MHH Please click here Between [...] 2026 17:15-19:00 Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dr. Arno Villringer, Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig Please click here Interdisciplinary Research in Neurological [...] Wednesday, January 21, 2026 17:15-19:00 Speaker: Dr. Melanie Boltzmann, Institute for Neurorehabilitative Research (InFo), Associated Institute of the Hannover Medical School BDH Clinical Department Hessisch Oldendorf

1997–2000 Research group leader (C1), Institute of Genetics, University of Bonn Since 2000: Group Leader , Institute of Cell Biology, merged in 2016 to form the Institute of Neuroanatomy and Cell Biology Awards [...] is. Pathomechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases Following the merger of the Institute of Cell Biology with the Institute of Neuroanatomy, the focus shifted to the question of whether changes in endocytosis [...] Master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation in the research group of Dr. Ernst Ungewickell, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried 1992–1997 Postdoctoral fellow in the research group of Dr. Emil Unanue

cells are deposited, the so-called fibrosis. For years, Professor Dr. Dr. Thomas Thum, head of the Institute for Molecular and Translational Therapy Strategies at the Hannover Medical School (MHH), has been [...] research team are focusing on so-called long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA). These are building blocks of our genetic material that are not responsible for the production of proteins, but control certain processes in [...] team investigated whether the Meg3 inhibitor could also stop fibrosis and improve heart failure in human heart muscle cells and heart tissue. "Our revolutionary technology worked excellently," the cardiologist

cardiac support system. With the help of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) from genetically reprogrammed human tissue cells, heart muscle cells can be produced. These should form the basic building [...] organoid for the first time. Robert Zweigerdt, Miriana Dardano, Lika Drakhlis (from left) How do human organs develop and what happens to them when they become diseased? To answer these questions, researchers [...] with more than six million euros, of which the Medical School Hannover (MHH) is the coordinating institution. This highly interdisciplinary network of academic and industrial scientists is composed of stem

Structure of the ZSE The Centre for Rare Diseases (ZSE) was founded in 2011 as part of the Institute of Human Genetics at Hannover Medical School and has been an independent department since 2018. There are [...] Centre for Rare Diseases The Centre for Rare Diseases (ZSE) is an independent interdisciplinary institution of Hannover Medical School (MHH). The task of the ZSE is to improve medical care for people with [...] cooperates with other university Centres for Rare Diseases, hospitals and other medical facilities or Institutions beyond the boundaries of the MHH and is networked throughout Germany. In addition, the ZSE of

that major hurdles have been overcome with the help of genetic engineering, including the prevention of the transmission of animal viruses to humans. The most advanced is the xenotransplantation of pig organs [...] succeeded in bringing experts on the burning issues of transplant medicine from the leading research institutions in Europe and the USA to Hannover," said Prof. Dr. Moritz Schmelzle, Director of the Clinical [...] successes have been achieved, for example, with donor lungs whose surface molecules have been genetically modified so that they are not recognized as foreign and rejected by the body. These include non-coding

for clinical application. These technologies were then combined for the generation of murine and human heart muscle tissue from embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells. For clinical testing of bi [...] iCARE - Induced pluripotent stem cells for clinically applicable heart repair – with six partner institutions, coordinated by Prof. Dr. U. Martin and Prof. Dr. A. Haverich (LEBAO, HTTG , MHH ). The BMBF-funded [...] aims at the generation of a tube-shaped heart tissue, which is based on the contractile function of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. The tubular construct represents a single heart chamber

the Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Engineering, the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology , the Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology and the Institute for [...] 2023 Human polyomavirus 2 - formerly called John Cunningham (JC) virus - infects about 70 to 90 percent of all people worldwide without most even noticing it. But once it enters the body, the genetic material [...] explains Professor Dr. Britta Eiz-Vesper, immunologist at the MHH Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Engineering . Because the institute is not only one of Germany's leading producer for virus-specific

Dr. Dirk Schlüter, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, MHH Academic Background: Molecular Microbiology, LUH Hannover Nour Elajiry Research Topic: Genetic Mechanisms of Severe [...] infection Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Pietschmann, Institute for Experimental Virologie, Twincore Academic Background: Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER [...] RNAs through nanopore sequencing Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Daniel Depledge and Prof. Dr. Lars Dölken, Institute of Virology, MHH Academic Background: Molecular Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Milano Muhammad

Investigations of human, human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes and animal contractile models in non-pathologic and pathologic conditions Address: Apl. Prof. Dr. Bogdan Iorga Institute for Molecular [...] composition of sarcomeric proteins. Subcellular myofibrils can be obtained from human (e.g., biopsies), human-derived and non-human cardiac and skeletal small muscle samples (e.g., mouse, rat, rabbit, zebrafish [...] and from human stem cells AG Dr. Sarah Konze Cardiomyocytes from human induced pluripotent stem cells as a cellular model for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Address Dr. rer. nat. Sarah Konze Institute for Molecular