Research Projects
When it comes to sausages, Germany is the best in the world: no other country offers as many different varieties of sausage.
Salmonella has a bad image: in summer, it crops up in connection with contaminated food. Salmonella don't just make people ill, though - in the future, it could play a crucial rote in cancer therapy.
The prostate carcinoma is one of the most frequent forms of cancer. Hence, research institutes such as the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) trace and evaluate cancerous cells at a very early stage.
The project entitled "Coffee Prevention: Identifying, Testing and Optimizing the Healthy Properties of Coffee" studies the positive influences of coffee on our well-being.
The "Lighthouse Project on Dementia" conducts studies to evaluate the benefit of non-pharmacological therapies and care for patients with dementia.
The Federal Government is establishing German Centres for Health Research to pool research into a number of particularly important common diseases.
Our understanding of basic disease mechanisms is growing. Medicine that is tailored to individual needs and conditions is almost within reach.
Insight into how nutrition, physical exercise, other behaviour and the environment affect gene activity provides new opportunities to better understand and prevent the development of common diseases such as diabetes or cardio-vascular diseases.
The ambition to provide everyone with an optimal and safe treatment continues to be of central importance in health care. At the same time, there is growing pressure to cut costs in the health care system.
International cooperation generates synergies for medical progress. Research infrastructures can be established and used jointly.
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