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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Walter will be Senior Research Professor at the Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis at the University Medical Center Mainz

As the first physician in Rhineland-Palatinate Prof. Dr. Konrad Wolf awarded the former Scientific Director of the Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Walter, with a Senior Research Professorship. Aim of the Senior Research Professorship is to anchor Prof. Walters (67) Research Expertise at the University Medical Center Mainz and to increase the national and international visibility of the CTH.
The Senior Research Professorship is funded by the University Medical Center Mainz. It has a duration up to the end of 2017.

A new study of cardiologists from Mainz reevaluates the role of the vasodilative substance.

A Research Group headed up by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Daiber of the University Medical Center Mainz detected new side effects of the organic nitrate Nitroglycerin. These could affect the prognosis of treated patients on a long-lasting way. As the recent Study of Mainz shows, a multi-day treatment with nitroglycerin can lead to a damage of the DNA. This could lead to a dying of stem cells, which are important for the repairing processes, as well as of endothelial cells. The latter form the separating layer between blood stream and the surrounding tissue. The recent publication appeared in the scientific journal “Basic Research in Cardiology”.

The CTVB Paper of the Month rewards one recent scientific paper of members of the institutions of the research center.

In August 2016 the publication "Depression, anxiety and suicidal Ideation among 1(st) and 2(nd) Generation migrants - results from the Gutenberg health study" was elected as the Paper of the Month.

The mental health of people with migrant background, which are already born in Germany (Migrants of the 2. Generation) is comparable with the mental health of people without migrant background.

People with migrant background, who moved on their own after 1949 (Migrants of the 1. Generation) suffer from mental problems.

These are the findings of a recent research work in the course of the Gutenberg Health Study.

Although it’s internationally proven that people with migrant background are exposed to particular health and psychosocial burden, representative German studies don’t exist.

In the course of the Gutenberg Health Study the research team headed by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Beutel, Director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy at the University Medical Center Mainz compared a broad range of psychological stress in people with migrant background of the first and second generation and people with no migrant background. Cross section data of 14,943 participants of the Gutenberg Health Study, which represent a random sample of the Mainz and Mainz-Bingen population in the age between 35 and 74, were examined.

 

Depression, anxiety and suicidal Ideation among 1(st) and 2(nd) Generation migrants - results from the Gutenberg health study

BMC Psychiatry DOI: 10.1186/s12888-016-0995-2 Beutel ME, Jünger C, Klein EM, Wild P, Lackner KJ, Blettner M, Banerjee M, Michal M, Wiltink J, Brähler E.

The Science Market Mainz at the 10^th and 11^th of September allowed the interested public to have a look at the work of the scientists participate actively in science. Under the theme “Human and Medicine” the MAINZER WISSENSCHAFTSALLIANZ e.V. presented the Science Market Mainz at the Gutenbergplatz for the 15^th time in a row. 400 highly motivated and passionate scientists of the Universities Mainz, research institutes and research companies were excited to present their research projects to the public and to share it with inquisitive persons.

The Research Center for Translational Vascular Biology (CTVB) was on site with the walkable heart model and the cardiovascular-game of the Foundation Mainzer Herz to improve the understanding of the cardiovascular system and to contribute to a long-lasting health education.

 

As an oversized heart model, the walkable heart makes the anatomical structure of the heart visible and perceptible. It gives an impression of the four chambers of the heart and the four heart valves. Diseases like artery calcifications and therapy methods like stents, artificial heart valves and bypasses.

 

 

 

Three stations of the cardiovascular game explain additionally on a playful and understandable way the various heart functions. In doing so they also mention prevention of cardiovascular diseases.

 

 

 

 

Furthermore Univ.-Prof. Dr. Philipp Wild gave a speech about the research of cardiovascular diseases. To illustrate the importance of this work, Prof. Wild responded to the questions why we need cardiovascular research and what it can effect.

 

The mental health of people with migrant background, which are already born in Germany (Migrants of the 2. Generation) is comparable with the mental health of people without migrant background.

People with migrant background, who moved on their own after 1949 (Migrants of the 1. Generation) suffer from mental problems.

These are the findings of a recent research work in the course of the Gutenberg Health Study.