About three million people in the European Union are affected by cancer. For 1.34 million of them, the disease is fatal. However, around 40 percent of cancer cases could be prevented through effective prevention strategies such as a healthier lifestyle and early detection.
Chronic heart failure – also known as cardiac insufficiency in medicine – is the most common reason for hospital admissions and one of the most frequent causes of death in the western world. In Germany alone, four million people suffer from this disease. Often a heart attack precedes, as a consequence the heart muscle is no longer supplied with blood and thus oxygen and the organ is irrevocably damaged.
Hepatitis D is by far the most severe form of chronic viral hepatitis, often leading to liver failure, liver cancer and death. However, knowledge about the disease is still very limited. The reason why those affected have very different courses of the disease is also still unknown.
Utilise biodiversity resources in a manner that preserves them and allows previously damaged ecosystems to regenerate: that is the aim of the European project SELINA, which will be coordinated by Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) commencing 1 July 2022. The European Union (EU) awarded the project 13 million euros in funding as part of the new HORIZON research programme.