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Liver Regeneration: REBIRTH congratulates Lars Zender
On 5 December, Professor Lars Zender, a former researcher with the REBIRTH Cluster of Excellence who worked at both Hannover Medical School (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig (HZI), was awarded... [more]
Rare lung disease: MHH researchers correct gene defect
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a very rare hereditary and life-threatening lung disease that occurs in childhood and is caused by a defect of the alveolar macrophages (the lungs’ scavenger cells). There is no prospect of... [more]
Teachers explore Hannover’s world of cutting-edge research
On 17 October 2013, nearly 40 teachers made use of the autumn break to upgrade their skills. The main organizers, Hannover’s two Clusters of Excellence REBIRTH and QUEST, were ably supported by colleagues from Hannover Medical... [more]
Researchers demonstrate ‘broken heart’
Around 2.5% of people hospitalized with a suspected heart attack suffer from ‘broken-heart syndrome’. For the emergency doctor on duty, however, it is difficult to distinguish between these two life-threatening conditions:... [more]
Seconds out for round three: a new Research Gap Year is starting
Seconds out for round three: a new Research Gap Year is starting On 2 September, seventy-four upper secondary-school leavers embarked on their Research Gap Year (FWJ) at Hannover Medical School (MHH) and its partner institutions... [more]
REBIRTH at the 2013 ‘Ideas Expo’
From 24 August to 1 September 2013, the ‘IdeenExpo’ was held once again on the World Exposition Site in Hannover. REBIRTH joined forces with many other institutes and companies in seeking to acquaint the young audience with... [more]
Haverich in an NDR-interview on "Organspendeskandal und die Folgen"
The interview with Prof. Dr. Axel Haverich, Coordinator of the Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, aired on Norddeutschen Rundfunks (NDR) on 18 August 2013, is only avaibable in German. You can watch the... [more]
Seyfried brings new life into REBIRTH
Professor Salim Seyfried, born in Oran, Algeria, has since late August 2013 been Professor of Cardiovascular Developmental Genetics in the Zebrafish at Hannover Medical School’s (MHH) Institute of Molecular Biology. He studied... [more]
New transatlantic Network for vascular medicine funded
Professor Dr. Dr. Thomas Thum, head of the Institute of Molecular and Translational Therapeutic Strategies (IMTTS) and the REBIRTH unit miRNA in Myocardial Regeneration at the Hannover Medical School (MHH), and European and... [more]
REBIRTH researchers discover new diagnostic option for cardiac insufficiency in pregnant women
Researchers at Hannover Medical School (MHH) have discovered a new therapeutic and diagnostic option for pregnancy-associated heart failure – also known as peripartum or postpartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM). “We’ve found that PPCM... [more]
An immune-system regulator discovered
Natural killer T cells (NKT cells) have been dubbed the ‘Swiss army knives of the immune system’ because they are so versatile: they can directly kill virus-infected cells and tumour cells and either stimulate or suppress the... [more]
Steinbrück visits REBIRTH
Today, the chancelor candidate Peer Steinbrück and Stefan Schostok, one of Hannover's mayor candidates, visited the Excellence Cluster REBIRTH. [more]
Chronic or acute liver failure: Improving regeneration of impaired livers
Scientists at Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Hannover Medical School (MHH) and Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig now showed that inhibition of a newly identified gene in mice leads to a dramatic... [more]
MHH researchers find a long-sought enzyme
It has been known for almost 20 years that sugar is bound to proteins in the cell membrane not only via nitrogen or oxygen, but also via carbon. The enzymatic mechanism involved in nitrogen and oxygen links between sugar... [more]
REBIRTH-Scientists receive Award for Rare Disease
On the international rare disease day 2013, Eva Luise Köhler presented a four-headed team of researchers at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) with the research award for rare diseases, endowed with 50.000 euro. The... [more]