Professor Hugo Katus, Senior Professor of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Heidelberg University Hospital, has been awarded an honorary Doctorate from Uppsala University in recognition of his pioneering work in cardiology.

Professor Julio Saez-Rodriguez’s team, researcher at the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University and Heidelberg University Hospital, together with scientists from Heidelberg and Sweden, has received a ERC Synergy Grant in the amount of 10 million …

A researcher team from Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne led by Dr. Vivek Thacker now group leader at the Department of Infectious Diseases at Heidelberg University Hospital have studied why tuberculosis bacteria form long strands and how this …

Research on Takotsubo syndrome, also known as broken heart syndrome / Heart researchers at Heidelberg University investigate an inflammatory signaling pathway in an animal model and show the damaging effect of stress hormones on the heart / In a …

Researchers from Heidelberg Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University Hospital and German Cancer Research Center investigate molecular relationships that promote infection and spread of SARS- coronavirus-2 / Results provide starting point for …

Researchers from Heidelberg University Hospital and the University of Lucerne as well as international scientists, patient representatives and European cancer societies have pooled scientific data and their expert knowledge on the surgical …

Scientists from Heidelberg University Hospital and the German Cancer Research Center describe tumor cells with pacemaker function in highly aggressive glioblastomas in "Nature" / pacemaker tumor cells promote growth and resistance of the brain tumor …

Scientists at Heidelberg University Hospital, the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and HI-STEM gGmbH* have discovered a new mechanism for the self-renewal of leukemia stem cells / Study results help to better …

Junior research group leader Dr. Victoria Ingham, Heidelberg Medical Faculty and German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), receives reputable ERC Starting Grant / Focus on resistance to insecticides in malaria transmission

Researchers from Heidelberg, Linz and Tübingen describe in Science a new mechanism of signal transfer in the hippocampus, the brain's memory center: Stimulus transfer past the cell body works despite inhibition by neuronal network

18th Congress of the International Society of Amyloidosis (ISA) takes place at Heidelberg University from September 4 to 8, 2022 / Scientists present new findings from research and care of systemic amyloidoses / Rare disease causes massive symptoms …

Researchers at Heidelberg University Hospital together with a team of international researchers demonstrate a positive effect of physical activity on the generation of new heart muscle cells in older hearts in an animal model / Molecular analyses …

Scientists at Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg University and the German Cancer Research Center have discovered an elementary new spreading strategy in gioblastomas, the most aggressive of all brain tumors / Brain tumor cells imitate …

A successful Collaborative Research Center (CRC) can start its third funding period, a new one is added / A total of eight CRCs are located at the Heidelberg Faculty of Medicine / New CRC on heart research: deciphering molecular circuits of heart …

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Thoraxklinik-Heidelberg at Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) and the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg has investigated how a rare form of lung cancer can be better treated on …

Stefan Fröhling and Hanno Glimm from the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) in Heidelberg and Dresden receive this year's Paul Martini Prize  / Joint press release by the NCT Heidelberg and the NCT/UCC Dresden

Researchers at Medical Faculty Heidelberg describe a new type of neuropathic pain in "Nature" / New findings represent a first step towards developing targeted therapies

Professor Dr Ralf Bartenschlager receives the Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine 2022 for his research in molecular virology. / Press Release by the Jung-Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Forschung

Rare neurodevelopmental disorder named after human geneticists at Heidelberg University Hospital / Naming follows first description of the disorder in 2021 / Currently 15 affected individuals identified worldwide

Researchers from Heidelberg University Hospital and Harvard Medical School publish fundamental findings on the inherited metabolic disease cystinosis in "Science".

Study documents stressors and investigates coping strategies / Press Release by Heidelberg University

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), will soon publish the first edition of its classification of childhood cancers. The new WHO classification forms the basis of modern, precise …

International evaluation names researchers whose publications have been cited most frequently worldwide / Citation frequency as an indication of scientific influence

Online Annual Report 2020 of Heidelberg University Hospital and Heidelberg University Medical Faculty now available / Internet presence with key economic figures and topics from clinical, research and teaching areas interactive and bilingual / Focus …

Researchers at Heidelberg University Hospital currently describe in "Neuron" where heat-sensitive neurons in the brain obtain the necessary information / "Outsourced" sensor proteins allow adapted thermoregulation

International study confirms new classification system for meningiomas / Combination of tissue characteristics with molecular analyses improves diagnosis and therapy / Publication in the Journal of Clinical Oncology