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Objectives

• to address major challenges to human health concerning heart, lung, liver and blood disorders, including immunity

• to explore and develop new therapeutic concepts beyond contemporary approaches

• to overcome conventional borders in medicine by deciphering new interrelationships between disease entities, e.g. regeneration and inflammation, degeneration and infection, or senescence and tumor development

• to translate mechanisms of organogenesis, endogenous repair, and stem cell biology into controllable in vitro systems and into disease models with potential clinical application

• to interconnect clinicians and biomedical researchers with physicochemical scientists and engineers

• to integrate clinical expertise, academic research, and industrial developments

• to further develop our scientific and translatory infrastructure

• to train young people and to attract excellent new faculty