Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

The Hannover Medical School (Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, MHH), founded in 1965, is one of the world's leading university medical centres. Due to its interdisciplinary research, MHH has strong collaborative links with many academic and industrial research organizations worldwide. Building on a broad expertise in medicine, immunology, biochemistry, structural biology, genetics, cell biology and infectiology, MHH scientists study human diseases and develop innovative strategies for diagnosis, prevention and therapy. Main research activities focus on transplantation, stem cell research, infection biology, immunology and biomedical technology.
In the transplant centre for solid organs (lung, heart, liver, kidney, pancreas), 170 to 210 kidney transplantation are performed annually. Of these, approximately 35 are performed in paediatric patients.
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Dr Wilfried Gwinner