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Primate in the operating room Karin Tilch

Laboratory Animal Science

What we do

The Department of Laboratory Animal Science, headed by Rabea Hinkel, is a joint professorship of the Hannover University of Veterinary Medicine and the German Primate Center. The department is an interface between the welfare of laboratory animals and translational biomedical research. The associated aspects such as

  • animal welfare/standardized and optimal housing of animals
  • medical care of the breeding and experimental animal groups
  • veterinary support of internal and external experimental groups
  • establishment of new models in biomedical research

are implemented, continuously updated and newly established in close cooperation with those responsible for animal husbandry and animal welfare in compliance with legal requirements. 

Our research

„I want to assemble cardiovascular research at the DPZ and establish models for heart failure in primates “

Rabea Hinkel

Prof. Dr. Rabea Hinkel Head Laboratory Animal Science Pathology


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Sabrina Bönig Team Assistant Laboratory Animal Science


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Publications

2024

Kaiser, Franziska K.; Hernandez, Mariana Gonzalez; Krüger, Nadine; Englund, Ellinor; Du, Wenjuan; Mykytyn, Anna Z. et al.
Filamentous fungus-produced human monoclonal antibody provides protection against SARS-CoV-2 in hamster and non-human primate models.
In: Nat Commun 15 (1), S. 1421.

Lindenhahn, Philipp; Richter, Jannik; Pepelanova, Iliyana; Seeger, Bettina; Volk, Holger A.; Hinkel, Rabea et al.
A Novel Artificial Coronary Plaque to Model Coronary Heart Disease.
In: Biomimetics 9 (4), S. 197.

Bibra, Constantin von; Hinkel, Rabea 
Non-human primate studies for cardiomyocyte transplantation—ready for translation?
In: Front. Pharmacol. 15, S. 2319.

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