Prof. Dr. med. Sebastian Arnold and his team from the Department of Regenerative Pharmacology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg initially want to establish a method of maturing cardiac organoids from mouse embryonic stem cells. Once this has been achieved, the development method will be transferred to human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Dr. Eva Rog-Zielinska and Dr. Rémi Peyronnet from the Institute of Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Freiburg are developing a method to cultivate heart tissue after it has been removed from the body. The idea is to continuously stimulate the heart tissue sections electromechanically in order to maintain their physiological function. This would allow using the tissue for several days, which is currently not the case.

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