Growing hearts in Hannover: a job opening
The Medical University of Hannover (MHH) in the German Lower Saxony is searching to recruit a professor who can grow humanContinue Reading
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Regenerating in Hannover, Part 2: Axel Haverich’s “growing” heart valves
The science of the fallen star of regenerative medicine Paulo Macchiarini was simple: take a dead organ, strip it ofContinue Reading
The laborious delivery of Markram’s brainchild
The European multimillion research project Human Brain Project is under fresh leadership, its visionary founder Henry Markram ousted from power.Continue Reading
Berlin clinic head Joussen investigated by DFG, while 3 universities ignore FOI requests
Antonia Joussen, head of ophthalmology clinic at the Berlin university hospital Charité, had to correct several of her publications dueContinue Reading
Berlin head ophthalmologist Joussen deploys lawyer to silence my reporting, demands from me €80,000 damages
I received a lawyer’s letter, where I am instructed to delete my report about the Berlin head ophthalmologist Antonia JoussenContinue Reading
Regenerating in Hannover, Part 1: how Macchiarini got ideas
The trachea surgeon and formerly world-renowned stem cell pioneer Paolo Macchiarini, whose human experimenting left most of his trachea-transplant patientsContinue Reading
Research data integrity: words and deeds of Berlin’s head ophthalmologist
Note: the following post provoked a lawyer’s letter on behalf of Antonia Joussen, demanding its removal and a personal damageContinue Reading
The 3rd editor and failure of ‘proper channels’
A scientist finds serious measurement errors in three publications of his former collaborators. He alerts the journals and makes hisContinue Reading
The decadence of German medical doctorate
Germany is a country where a doctorate still invites respect and even deference, in certain circles at least. Here, the prefixContinue Reading
Macchiarini’s patients, the real situation
Paolo Macchiarini, former star surgeon at Swedish Karolinska Insitutet (KI), came back to Sweden to give his version of theContinue Reading
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