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Neurodegenerative Diseases

WEBThe term "neurodegeneration" describes a progressive decline and loss of neurons. Depending on which area of the nervous system is affected, neurodegeneration can lead to dementia, trigger movement disorders or massively impair health in other ways. This manifests itself in diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia (FTD

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Cardiovascular Diseases

WEBCause of Death Number 1: Cardiovascular Research. Cardiovascular diseases continue to increase and are still the number one cause of death in Germany. They are often chronic and rob people of the most healthy years of life compared to other diseases. This means that more and more people are living for a very long time with heart failure

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Infectious Diseases

WEBThe COVID 19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of emerging infectious diseases. The epidemic or even pandemic spread of previously unknown viruses is not a new phenomenon, though, as demonstrated by infectious diseases such as influenza, AIDS, Ebola fever, and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) caused by SARS-CoV …

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Patient involvement creates health for all

WEBThe value of health data for research – A dialogue between Prof. Martin Hrabě de Angelis and Rudolf Hauke from the Patient Advisory Board of the DKFZ and the DKTK. Read more "We, the patients, are experts through our experience, which is a valuable resource."

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Research for a healthy psyche: New German Centre for Health …

WEB"It is a milestone in mental health research and opens up the possibility of sustainably improving the health literacy of the population and the care of patients," adds Prof Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Director of the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim. Heinz and Meyer-Lindenberg are currently spokespersons of the DZPG board.

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Mental disorders

WEBMental disorders are widespread and often begin in childhood and adolescence: almost one in three people will experience a mental illness in the course of a year. The causes are complex and are the subject of intense research.

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Interactive DZG Map

WEBNetworked Research for Patients. The DZG research network spans the whole of Germany. Using the interactive DZG map, you can find the 7 DZGs with their 104 partner institutions, search for individual institutions or filter the centers by federal state and city. DZIF (35)

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Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Trials

WEBThe DZGs unite almost all university hospitals in Germany in their network. A large proportion of the studies conducted are multicenter. The working group Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Trials aims to identify opportunities, but also obstacles in this process in order to make clinical research both safer and more successful. The working group

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First Integrated Single-Cell Atlas of the Human Lung

WEBThis atlas elucidates the diversity of single lung cell types and allows learning about lung biology in health and disease. It is the first major integrated organ and was built as part of the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) initiative, a worldwide collaborative effort to map the entire body at the level of single cells. The results were now published in

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DZG Innovation Fund

WEBThe DZG Innovation Fund (DZGIF) is a joint research funding program of the German Centers for Health Research. For each round of calls for proposals, there will be an agreed research topic that allows active participation of all DZG. A prerequisite for funding a project is the participation of scientists from at least three of the seven DZGs.

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Interview with Martin Hrabě de Angelis and Rudolf Hauke

WEBThe planned German Health Data Usage Act (Gesundheitsdatennutzungsgesetz, GDNG) and the European Health Data Space are an opportunity to raise data use in Germany to an international standard. It must be said, however, that Germany is in the process of organizing itself. There are already activities in which we are organizing ourselves across

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