{"id":5894,"date":"2013-05-07T00:32:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T00:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=5894"},"modified":"2013-09-14T22:28:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T22:28:52","slug":"regenerative-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=5894","title":{"rendered":"Regenerative Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"regenerative_medicine\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/thrc.hno.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de\/_media\/thrc.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/>The L\u00f6wenheim group is located at the University of T\u00fcbingen Medical Centre, Department of Otolaryngology, Head &amp; Neck Surgery. The group has exclusive access to laboratories for biochemical, cell biological, molecular-biological and physiological work. There are three rooms equipped with biosafety cabinets for cell and organ culture, several shared central equipment core rooms, and two audio booths for small animals fully equipped for sophisticated auditory electrophysiology. There are three fluorescence microscopes (one LSM) exclusively used by the L\u00f6wenheim group. There is access to LSM, TEM and SEM electron microscopes located anatomical department of the University of T\u00fcbingen. Animal care facility (SPF) is located within the building. The medical school T\u00fcbingen has several core facilities, including DNA sequencing, microarray, laser dissection, FACS, PET, MET, Proteomics and transgenic mouse facility.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>The group has established several inner ear assay platforms: murine inner ear derived cell lines, cochlear progenitor cell expansion, in vitro cochlea spiral ganglion cell model, in vitro culture model for the whole inner ear for drug screening; in vivo hearing loss models and local drug application technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior staff:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Dr. med. Hubert L\u00f6wenheim, Leader of the project team \u201cRegenerative Medicine\u201d at the T\u00fcbingen Hearing Research Center, Stellvertretender \u00c4rztlicher Direktor, Klinik f\u00fcr Hals-, Nasen- und Ohrenheilkunde T\u00fcbingen.<\/p>\n<p>Priv.-Doz. Dr. phil. nat. Marcus M\u00fcller, Senior scientist with too many years of experience in various in vivo animal models, inner ear local drug application technology, and functional assessment of the inner ear in birds and mammals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"research_interest\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Research Interest<\/h2>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Regeneration in the inner ear<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Stem cell research<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Water regulation in the inner ear<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Treatment of noise induced hearing loss<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Protection of hair cell loss after acoustic or ototoxic trauma<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Development of organ culture methods to reduce animal experiments<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Improvement of cochlear implant performance<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>National and international scientific partners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/thrc.hno.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de\/groups\/home\" href=\"http:\/\/thrc.hno.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de\/groups\/home\" target=\"_\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/thrc.hno.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de\/groups\/home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fero and Roberts, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle USA<br \/>\nGharabaghi, Klinik f\u00fcr Neurochirurgie am Universit\u00e4tsklinikum T\u00fcbingen<br \/>\nKumagami, Nagasaki University, Japan<br \/>\nHeller, Stanford University, Stanford USA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Dr. med. Hubert L\u00f6wenheim<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"plugin_include__address\">\n<p>T\u00fcbingen Hearing Research Centre<br \/>\nElfriede-Aulhorn-Strasse 5<br \/>\nD-72076 T\u00fcbingen<br \/>\nGermany<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Phone: +49 (0)7071\/29-88088<br \/>\nFax: +49 (0)7071\/29-3311<br \/>\n<a title=\"hubert.loewenheim@uni-tuebingen.de\" href=\"mailto:hubert.loewenheim@uni-tuebingen.de\">hubert.loewenheim@uni-tuebingen.de<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The L\u00f6wenheim group is located at the University of T\u00fcbingen Medical Centre, Department of Otolaryngology, Head &amp; Neck Surgery. The group has exclusive access to laboratories for biochemical, cell biological, molecular-biological and physiological work. 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