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

complex, innovative and difficult operations currently available in the fields of cardiac, thoracic, transplant and vascular surgery. This extreme variety of surgical therapies gives young physicians an incomparable

Their role should not be underestimated: After exhausting chemotherapy, operations and stem cell transplants, it is a moving moment to see your own children and siblings take off again as fully integrated

rer. nat. Tanja Zimmermann , Professor of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy with a focus on Transplantation Medicine and Oncology, Clinical Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, MHH Ursula Neuhaus

outpatient clinic CTEPH outpatient clinic ILD specialist consultation (pulmonary fibrosis) Lung transplant outpatient clinic Cystic fibrosis outpatient clinic Pneumological HHT outpatient clinic (Osler's