Conducting research with data and samples from the National Register, Wolfram Scheible für Nationales Register

Researchers

We Turn Visions into Reality.

Over 200 scientists conduct research at the Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects for quality of life in congenital heart disease. Each research success is a contribution.

Taking Part in the Competence Network’s Research Activities

Pediatric cardiologist Prof. Dr. med. Christian Apitz, Universitätsklinikum Ulm — Pediatric cardiologist Prof. Dr. med. Christian Apitz

Prof. Dr. med. Christian Apitz, pediatric cardiologist

“The Register’s comprehensive data collection can be trusted to be significant. Without it, representative studies would be impossible.”

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Human geneticist Dr. Anne-Karin Kahlert, Nationales Register | privat — Human geneticist Dr. Anne-Karin Kahlert

Dr. Anne-Karin Kahlert, human geneticist

“Our basic research requires a reliable sample base. The Register has our back so that we can focus on the actual research. To us that means a huge relief.”

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ACHD researcher Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Gerhard-Paul Diller, Nationales Register | UKM — ACHD researcher Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Gerhard-Paul Diller

Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Gerhard-Paul Diller, ACHD researcher

“Over 50,000 register members donate their data and samples. This is a big act of faith, which places a great responsibility on us.”

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Dates

Results from our Research Activities

Antibodies attack viral cells in the bloodstream. New study shows: The risk of immunodeficiency is significantly higher in congenital heart disease than previously known.

Pressemitteilungen | Evidence-Based Medicine

Therapy Progress Only through Registry Research

Researchers are pushing for the promotion of registry-based research. The importance of this is also shown by the results of a new study: immunodeficiencies in congenital heart defects are significantly more common than previously assumed.

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Patients | Medicine and Healthcare, Healthcare Research

Growing Old With a Congenital Heart Defect?

OptAHF was the first comprehensive study to examine life with a congenital heart defect into old age. It is the largest care study ever conducted in this area. We interviewed those responsible for the study about the results.

To the heart researcher talk

Prof. Dr. med. Hashim Abdul-Khaliq, Speaker of the Competence Network, talking to Dr. med. Ulrike Bauer, Managing Director of the Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects.

Researchers

Research Creates Future.

Already today, numerous findings from research are being utilized in practice, resulting in an improved health care for those affected. What have we achieved? Which research questions are We currently tackling?

Projects and Results of Our Research Activities

Doing Research with Us

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Researchers

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Focus on your research. We provide the basics.

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Who is Involved in Our Research Activities?

Research on the basis of the Register is conducted worldwide. Learn more about the researchers and their projects.

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Publications

Thanks to our research results, improvements in diagnostics, treatment and care are already happening today.

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Services and Facilities

More than 55,000 participants have donated their data for research.

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Research Basis of the National Register

From the single project to the multicenter study: More than 55,000 patients and their families enable efficient and successful research by donating their data and samples.

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Staff member of the Central Biobank Charité, Berlin (ZeBanC) uses a robot to isolate DNA from blood samples of the National Register.

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The National Register Biobank

Our biorepository provides you with biomaterial from roughly 8,000 sample donors for basic research.

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Dr. med. Ulrike Bauer, Managing Director of the Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects, talking to Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Michael Hummel, Director of the Central Biobank Charité (ZeBanC).

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Initiating Projects

You are planning a research project that could use our data and samples? We support you with every step from your project idea up to the publication.

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Research Creates Future

Enabling Innovations

Each research success means one more contribution to improving the quality of life of children, adolescents and adults with congenital heart disease. The more physicians and scientists take part in our research effort the better.

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We Turn Visions into Reality.

Taking Part in the Competence Network’s Research Activities

Dates

57th Annual Meeting of the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC) in Porto, Portugal

20th International Congress of Update in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery in Elite World Grand Istanbul Basın Ekspres Convention Center Istanbul

ESC Congress 2024 in London

DGKJ Congress of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine in Congress Center Rosengarten Mannheim

19th DHZB-Lange Symposium for Congenital Heart Defects in Berlin

DGK Heart Days 2024 in Congress Center Hamburg

Results from our Research Activities

Therapy Progress Only through Registry Research