Hanover is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany after Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen. Hanover's urban area comprises the towns of Garbsen, Langenhagen and Laatzen and has a population of about 791,000 (2018). The Hanover Region has approximately 1.16 million inhabitants (2019).
The University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover is a university in Hanover and one of the five facilities for veterinary medicine in Germany, and the only one that remains independent. It is often referred to as TiHo by its staff and students.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover, also known as the University of Hannover, is a public research university located in Hanover, Germany. Founded on 2 May 1831 as Higher Vocational School, the university has undergone six periods of renaming, its most recent in 2006.
TU Dresden (for German: Technische Universität Dresden, abbreviated as TUD and often called the Dresden University of Technology is a public research university, the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, the largest university in Saxony and one of the 10 largest universities in Germany with 32,389 students as of 2018.
The University of Freiburg Faculty of Medicine is the medical school and dental school of the University of Freiburg and forms university's biomedical research unit together the University Medical Center Freiburg. The faculty was founded in 1457 as one of Germany's oldest and is regarded among its most distinguished. Institutes and buildings are located at the Medical Center campus in Freiburg's Stühlinger district and in the Institute Quarter in the Neuburg district. The Faculty of Medicine consistently ranks very highly in a variety of national and international rankings, such as those published by the German periodicals Der Spiegel and Focus. The University of Freiburg is ranked 4th in Germany in funding for life sciences research by the German Research Foundation overall and ranked 2nd in funding per professor.
The Heil- und Giftpflanzengarten der Tierärztlichen Hochschule Hannover is a botanical garden specializing in medicinal and poisonous plants. It is maintained by the Tierärztlichen Hochschule Hannover, and located on campus at Bünteweg 17D, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Heiko Echter von der Leyen is a German physician, by birth member of the von der Leyen family, which belonged to the German nobility.
Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media is a university of performing arts and media in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Dating to 1897, it has reorganised and changed names as it developed over the years, most recently in 2010 when it changed from State College of Music and Drama Hanover. Since 2010, its president has been Susanne Rode-Breymann. As of 2021, the university has 1,484 students and a total of 477 staff.
Hans Popper was an Austrian-born pathologist, hepatologist and teacher. Together with Dame Sheila Sherlock, he is widely regarded as the founding father of hepatology. He is the namesake of the Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society, as well as the International Hans Popper Award and the Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society.
The Hochschule Hannover - University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HsH) is a public Fachhochschule in Hanover. It's the second largest university in Hanover with approximately 10,000 enrolled students in the winter term 2021/2022 and 620 professors and employees. In addition there are around 430 guestlecturers from other academic institutes, organisations and companies teaching at the HsH. The Hochschule Hannover has four locations.
Axel Haverich is a German cardiac surgeon.
Karl Arnold variously Carl Johann Moritz Arnold or Johann Karl Moritz Arnold was a German chemist and mountaineer. He served as Director and briefly as Vice-Chancellor of the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover. His published works on organic chemistry were of importance to veterinarians, medical students and pharmacists. He was also an accomplished alpinist and chairman of the Hanover section of the German-Austrian Alpine Association.
Uwe Klima is UAE based professor of surgery and a faculty member at the Hannover Medical School, Germany. He also is the medical and managing director at German Heart Centre, Dubai.
Rainer Blasczyk is a German physician for transfusion medicine specialized in histocompatibility and immunogenetics in the field of organ transplantation. He is known for the development of genetic engineering of allografts to prevent organ rejection.
Richard Matthias Jakoby was a German music teacher and cultural manager and until 1993 director of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover.
The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) is a publicly funded research institute based in Braunschweig, Germany. HZI is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, the largest non-university scientific organisation in Germany.
Reimar Dahlgrün was a German pianist, professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and journalist.
Rudolf Pichlmayer was a German surgeon and head of the Abdominal and Transplantation Surgery Department of the Hannover Medical School. He was one of the leading transplant physicians in Germany. He is considered a pioneer in liver transplantation. The introduction of the term "transplantation medicine" goes back to Pichlmayr.
Ina Pichlmayr is a German anesthesiologist and professor of medicine. She is co-founder of the Rehabilitation Center Ederhof, a special hospital in Iselsberg-Stronach for the rehabilitation of children and adolescents and their parents before and after organ transplantation.
Beate Sodeik is a German cell biologist who is Professor of Medical Sciences at the Hannover Medical School. Her research considers the biology of viral infections, with a particular focus on Herpes simplex virus.
