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Visit of the DGBMT management to NIFE: Exchange on the future of biomedical engineering

23/05/2025

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On May 22, we had the pleasure of welcoming Dr.-Ing. Thomas Becks, the new Managing Director of the German [...]

The day of the laboratory animal at NIFE

25/04/2025

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On April 24, 2025, an internal event was held at NIFE to mark Laboratory Animal Day. In 6 exciting presentations, some research groups presented their animal models and explained to interested colleagues for which of their research questions there are currently no alternatives to animal experiments.

Future Day 2025 at the Lower Saxony Center for Biomedical Engineering and Implant Research

03/04/2025

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30 children took part in Future Day 2025 today at the Lower Saxony Center for Biomedical Engineering and Implant Research [...]

Successful 4th Digital Implant Innovation Forum despite stormy weather

29/11/2024

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The 4th symposium of the established Digital Implant Innovation Forum series took place on November 28. [...]

Participation of NIFE/HTTG research groups at the Hannover Organ Transplant Summit

26/11/2024

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Researchers in cardiothoracic, transplantation and vascular surgery from NIFE presented their latest scientific findings at the first Hannover Organ Transplant Summit, which took place on November 21 and 22, 2024 at the Medical Park Hannover.

Novel biosensor to detect contamination of water

19/11/2024

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iGEM Competition 2024: Students at Leibniz University Hannover receive gold medal for development that could help prevent antibiotic resistance

Heart transplantation in wartime

14/11/2024

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International cooperation in cutting-edge medicine: Renowned surgeon Prof. Dr. Borys Todurov reports on how transplant programs in [...]

Innovative implant against sudden deafness wins start-up funding competition

30/08/2024

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Lower Saxony Research Incubator Institute for Biomedical Translation (IBT) supports MHH project Bacta Implants with 770,000 euros The [...]

Successful "Girls'Day, Boys'Day 2024", Future Day at NIFE

26/04/2024

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20 children spent an exciting future day at the Lower Saxony Center for Biomedical Engineering and Implant Research on 25.04.2024, [...]

Sensitive tool for the ear

02/04/2024

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Four prestigious clusters of excellence were launched in Hanover in 2019: At "Hearing4all", a team is improving surgical technology for hearing prostheses.

Health weeks at the Aufhof - NIFE was there!

07/02/2024

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At the Health Weeks in Aufhof, working groups from the Lower Saxony Center for Biomedical Engineering and Implant Research [...]

Successful 3rd 'Digital Implant Innovation Forum' at NIFE

01/02/2024

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On 30.1.24 the 3rd event in the series 'Digital Implant Innovation Forum' took place very successfully at the NIFE, an event with 12 lectures on all aspects of tissue engineering (TE) as well as poster publications by individual groups in and around the NIFE.

DIGITAL IMPLANT INNOVATION FORUM #3 on January 30, 2024

13/12/2023

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On Tuesday, January 30, the "Digital Implant Innovation Forum #3" will take place in the Skywalk of the NIFE. Further information can be found here.

MHH inserts the world's first innovative implant into the ear canal

27/11/2023

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Man receives customized 3D-printed implant that also delivers medication For the first time, the ENT Clinic of the Medical [...]

Successful open day at NIFE

17/11/2023

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As part of this year's Knowember of Science, the NIFE and the Collaborative Research Center SIIRI organized a [...]

OrthoRetreat 2.0

02/11/2023

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On 02.11.2023, the OrthoRetreat event took place for the second time at NIFE under the title "Orthopedic [...]

Kick-off event of the in-service training course "Translational Research and Medicine: From Idea to Product

01/11/2023

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On Thursday, October 12, 2023, this year's TRAIN Academy kick-off event was held at NIFE [...]

Technology meets Medicine

02/10/2023

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International Conference on Biomedical Technology November 06th - 08th, 2023 Hanover, Germany

Guest lecture in the context of the scientific NIFE colloquium

28/09/2023

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On Sept. 16, 2023, Prof. Dominik Egger from the Institute of Cell Biology and Biophysics of the Leibniz [...]

Successful 2nd event of the Digital Implant Innovation Forum (DIIF) lecture series at NIFE.

20/09/2023

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On 11.09.23 - despite midsummer temperatures - the 2nd event of the Digital Implant Innovation [...]

Successful start of our new event series "Digital Implant Innovation Forum

23/06/2023

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On June 21, 2023, the kick-off event of the Digital Implant Innovation Forum under the auspices of the Digital Health City Hannover took place at NIFE.

DGIFE-initiated interactive PhD seminar

22/06/2023

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On June 14 and 15, 2023, the first German Society for Implant Research [...]

Second UHC Science Day at NIFE

22/06/2023

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On June 30, 2023, the 2nd Science Day of the Department of Trauma Surgery took place at NIFE. The [...]

Meetup on "Artificial Intelligence in Hearing Research and Medicine" at NIFE.

24/05/2023

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On 23.05.23 a Meetup organized by AIM Agile IT Management GmbH in collaboration with hannoverimpuls on the topic "Artificial Intelligence in Hearing Research and Medicine" took place at NIFE.

ISPO Congress takes place at NIFE

16/05/2023

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Last week, the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO) Annual Congress 2023 was successfully held at NIFE with a record number of participants. The congress was held over a two-day period and offered participants a wealth of lectures and workshops.

Visual communication before CI use does not harm deaf children

11/05/2023

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People born deaf use parts of the auditory brain area for vision. However, this does not hinder the recovery of the sense of hearing, MHH researchers found.

Future Day at NIFE

28/04/2023

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On 27.05.2023 28 children participated in the Girl`s and Boy`s Day at NIFE. The day was a great success! The children had the opportunity to work with our scientists and experience research first hand.

Successful kick-off event "SIIRI for Public - Safe Implants for the Future

16/03/2023

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On 14.03.23 the kick-off event of the new lecture series "Safe implants for the future" of the Transregio Collaborative Research Center [...]

First OrthoRetreat of the year in NIFE

13/03/2023

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On 09.03.2023 the first OrthoRetreat of this year of the Orthopedic Clinic in NIFE took place.

SIIRI Implant lecture

08/03/2023

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Prof. Lars Dietrich from the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, New York, USA, has given us [...].

Lower Saxony Animal Welfare Award for MHH Project R2N

14/02/2023

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Ministry of Agriculture honors Professor Dr. André Bleich in the category "Alternative Methods to Animal Testing".

Region president experiences research at NIFE

10/02/2023

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On February 9, 2023, Region President Steffen Krach visited NIFE for the first time to learn about current projects related to implants.

Successful 1st NIFE Research Day!

06/12/2022

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There were exciting lectures, interesting panel discussions, workshops, and exhibitions. The day vividly demonstrated the diverse [...]

The conundrum of ethics committees

12/09/2022

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On Aug. 25, 2022, Prof. Spranger gave a lecture on "The Enigma of Ethics Committees" for [...]

Cutting-edge research on the development of vascularized tissue

12/07/2022

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Prof. Dr. Boris Chichkov of the Institute of Quantum Optics has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. [...]

1st UCH Science Day

08/07/2022

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On 08.07.2022, the first Science Day of the Department of Trauma Surgery took place at NIFE (Lower Saxony Center for [...]

Hope for severely injured after limb amputation

31/05/2022

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MHH research team aims to advance replantation of arms and legs Amputees with severely damaged extremities - such as those caused by

Two million euros for new directions in hearing research

31/05/2022

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Expert in hearing prosthetics receives prestigious ERC grant from the European Union About 15 million people in Germany

New standard work on Neuroprostheses

07/01/2022

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Reference book is aimed at experts and students from different disciplines A new standard work on neuroprostheses have

News

Visit of Prof. Noam Adir at NIFE

Successful NIFE structure workshop at the Royal Stables of the LUH

Minister Falko Mohrs visits the NIFE

Congratulations on the 3rd funding period!

Visit of the DGBMT management to NIFE: Exchange on the future of biomedical engineering

The day of the laboratory animal at NIFE

Future Day 2025 at the Lower Saxony Center for Biomedical Engineering and Implant Research

Successful 4th Digital Implant Innovation Forum despite stormy weather

Participation of NIFE/HTTG research groups at the Hannover Organ Transplant Summit

Novel biosensor to detect contamination of water

Heart transplantation in wartime

Innovative implant against sudden deafness wins start-up funding competition

Successful "Girls'Day, Boys'Day 2024", Future Day at NIFE

Sensitive tool for the ear

Health weeks at the Aufhof - NIFE was there!

Successful 3rd 'Digital Implant Innovation Forum' at NIFE

DIGITAL IMPLANT INNOVATION FORUM #3 on January 30, 2024

MHH inserts the world's first innovative implant into the ear canal

Successful open day at NIFE

OrthoRetreat 2.0

Kick-off event of the in-service training course "Translational Research and Medicine: From Idea to Product

Technology meets Medicine

Guest lecture in the context of the scientific NIFE colloquium

Successful 2nd event of the Digital Implant Innovation Forum (DIIF) lecture series at NIFE.

Successful start of our new event series "Digital Implant Innovation Forum

DGIFE-initiated interactive PhD seminar

Second UHC Science Day at NIFE

Meetup on "Artificial Intelligence in Hearing Research and Medicine" at NIFE.

ISPO Congress takes place at NIFE

Visual communication before CI use does not harm deaf children

Future Day at NIFE

Successful kick-off event "SIIRI for Public - Safe Implants for the Future

First OrthoRetreat of the year in NIFE

SIIRI Implant lecture

Lower Saxony Animal Welfare Award for MHH Project R2N

Region president experiences research at NIFE

Successful 1st NIFE Research Day!

The conundrum of ethics committees

Cutting-edge research on the development of vascularized tissue

1st UCH Science Day

Hope for severely injured after limb amputation

Two million euros for new directions in hearing research

New standard work on Neuroprostheses