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ORGANSPENDE: Between farewell and hope

To mark Organ Donation Day on June 1, 2024, we are showing a film about the organ donation register. Registration is voluntary and free of charge and gives hope to people on the waiting list. It can be changed or revoked at any time.

48TH NEPHROLOGY SEMINAR, HEIDELBERG

Every year in March, we invite you to this highlight in the Neue Aula am Universitätsplatz in Heidelberg. The seminar offers internists an overview of the current state of knowledge in theoretical and clinical nephrology. Here is a review.

The online organ donation register

The entry in the organ donor register has been available digitally since March 18, 2024. Here, anyone aged 16 and over can specify what should happen to their organs in the event of their death.

MIC cell therapy in renal TX

If you are planning an organ transplant through living organ donation, then MIC cell therapy is of interest to you. The Heidelberg Kidney Center would like to invite you to participate in the MIC study.

HANSEATIC PRIZE FOR INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

At the 34th Symposium Intensive Medicine + Intensive Care from February 14 - 16, 2024 in Bremen, the Hanse Prize for Intensive Care Medicine was awarded to Dr. Christian Nußhag, Kidney Center Heidelberg.

TRANSPLANTATION RESEARCH PRIZE 2023

Dr. med. Louise Benning received an award for her research work "Between immunosuppression and immunocompetence - establishing immune monitoring after kidney transplantation" on October 27, 2023

BEST ABSTRACT AWARD for Louise Benning

The scientist Dr. med. Louise Benning from the NZH research team, receives one of the Best Abstract prizes at the ESOT Congress 2023, for developing a vision and research for the future of organ transplantation

SUMMER, HEAT, SUNSHINE

Spring and summer 2023 were and are hot: preliminary figures show that temperatures will exceed those of last year's hot summer. Climate change may be the greatest health threat of the twenty-first century

NIGHTINGALE I HEAR YOU COUGHING

While we have locked this annoying corona pandemic in the dark chamber of oblivion and are enjoying ourselves on the beach, in the thermal baths and in the beer garden, the virus begins to make its ugly rounds again under the code name "Eris"

The Kidney Navi of the German Society of Nephrology (DGfN)

In general, little is known about possible renal replacement procedures, although around 10% of Germans are affected by chronic kidney disease. The German Society of Nephrology (DGfN) is closing gaps on the knowledge map with a "KIDNEY NAVI".

ANITA AND FRIEDRICH REUTNER PRIZE for Dr. Louise Benning

In July 2022, doctor and scientist Louise Benning was awarded the Heidelberg Medical Faculty's Young Talent Award for her research into the vaccination response to protect against COVID-19 in kidney transplant patients

VENI, VIDI, DIVI - Prize in second installment

The DIVI Congress and Award Ceremony 2021 - A successful outcome for Christian Nusshag even in times of "greatest challenge"