MEDICAL FACULTY

UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG

The PULSE project, funded by the European Innovation Council, aims to revolutionise bioprinting and advance its applications in space exploration and healthcare. To reach this goal, PULSE is developing a platform that combines magnetic and acoustic levitation to create ultra-fidelity 3D biological structures that simulate real tissues and organs.

The Chief Physician of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the University Hospital for Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery Magdeburg Prof. Dr. med. Thorsten Walles has also taken over the position of Chief Physician of the Clinic for Thoracic Surgery at Lostau Pulmonary Hospital as of June 1, 2023.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg has gained new insights into how inflammatory mediators of pathogen defense can remotely drive cancer cells into death - an important contribution to improving cancer immunotherapies.