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DFG funds research consortium at the Medical Faculty Heidelberg with around 15.8 million euros – A new Collaborative Research Centre based at the Medical Faculty Heidelberg is going to start at Heidelberg University. In its recent approval round, the German Research Foundation (DFG) decided to support CRC 1709 “Cellular Plasticity in Malignant Myeloid Diseases – […]

Germany’s most important award for young scientists honors the development of immunotherapies against malignant brain tumors. Using immune cells to fight brain tumors – that is the goal of Lukas Bunse, who is this year’s recipient of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The physician and scientist is being honored for […]

The US magazine “Newsweek” has once again named Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) one of the best hospitals in the world. In the “World’s Best Hospitals 2025” ranking, which is compiled by “Newsweek” in collaboration with the statistics and data platform “Statista”, the UKHD ranks 14th out of 2,400 hospitals worldwide. In Germany, the UKHD is […]

Like all viruses, the Ebola virus is dependent on host cells in order to replicate. Researchers at Heidelberg University Hospital, in collaboration with colleagues from the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, have been able to show for the first time using state-of-the-art imaging techniques how the replication compartments of the Ebola virus change during replication in infected […]