Press Releases

Dr. Daniel Reichart is a doctor at the LMU Hospital in Munich and head of a research group at the LMU Gene Centre. For his research on ageing…

Last week, an artificial tricuspid valve was implanted at the Centre for Cardiology at the Mainz University Medical Centre for the first time…

In patients with inflammatory cardiomyopathy, the heart muscle is permanently inflamed even though there is no viral infection. In the TRINITY-DZHK26…

The world's only clinical trial to implant artificial heart tissue in patients with heart failure to permanently strengthen the heart muscle has…

Heart failure is one of the leading causes of death. Approximately one million people with heart failure also suffer from atrial fibrillation, a heart…

A leaking mitral valve can be repaired either surgically or using a catheter-based approach. Mitral valve prolapse, in which part of the valve…

This is what ideal medicine would look like: Doctors could specifically alter molecular processes in diseased cells in the body and thus causally cure…

Prof. Benjamin Meder has accepted the call to the W3 professorship "Precision Digital Health" at Heidelberg University. Within the framework of the…

The German Center for Cardiovascular Research is centralizing its biospecimens collections, which are currently stored at 60 sites. Therefore, it is…

Patients with heart failure frequently also suffer from atrial fibrillation. Their heart then beats irregularly and often too fast, further worsening…

Press releases

The ageing heart

World's first minimally invasive replacement of the tricuspid valve using newly approved technology

New DZHK Study: Immunosuppressants to improve heart function (TRINITY-DZHK26 trial)

Heart patch in clinical trial: Dose finding completed (BioVAT-DZHK20 study)

Atrial fibrillation ablation study in heart failure enters clinical phase (study CABA-HFPEF-DZHK27)

Repairing the mitral valve: with surgery or with a catheter? (PRIMARY study)

Overcoming professional boundaries - DZG fund joint project on gene and cell therapy

Benjamin Meder accepted W3 professorship "Precision Digital Health"

DZHK establishes two central biobanks - cooperation partners welcome

Improved therapy for patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation (CABA-HFPEF-DZHK27 trial)