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(umg/dzhk) 60 million people suffer from heart failure worldwide. In Germany, 4 million people are affected. Heart failure is the most common reason for hospitali-zation with 500,000 cases annually. Now for the first time, the Paul-Ehrlich-Institute approved a clinical trial with a myocardial compound generated from stem cells, a so-called “band aid for the heart”. The clinical trial BioVAT-HF-DZHK20 “Safety and Efficacy of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Engineered Human Myocardium as Biological Ventricular Assist Tissue in Terminal Heart Failure” is currently being initiated at the heart center of the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG). The novel biological therapy approach is being administered to patients for the first time worldwide and was developed at the Göttingen site of the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK).

We would like to inform you about the start of the trial, the idea, the application and the further options and we cordially invite you to a

PRESS BRIEFING (virtual)
“Band aid for the heart” generated from stem cells to repair the heart muscle in case of heart failure starts first clinical trial worldwide
February 09, 2021, 2:30 pm
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YOUR CONVERSATION PARTNERS:
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• Björn Thümler, Secretary for Science and Culture in Lower Saxony
• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Brück, Spokesperson of the University Medical Center Göttingen
• Prof. Dr. Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann, Scientific Principal Investigator of the “Band aid for the heart” trial,
Director of the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology of UMG
• Prof. Dr. Gerd Hasenfuß, Chairman of the Heart Center at the University Medicine Göttin-gen
• Prof. Dr. Ingo Kutschka, Director of the Department for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery at UMG

Via Zoom:
• Prof. Dr. Tim Seidler, Lead of the clinical trial,
Deputy Director of the Department for Cardiology and Pneumology at UMG
• Dr. Ahmad-Fawad Jebran, deputy lead of the clinical trial,
Attending Physician of the Department for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery at UMG
• Associate Professor. Dr. Joachim Riggert, Head of the Central Department for Transfusion Medicine at UMG

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