Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH

Development of innovative methods for diagnostics, therapy and rehabilitation to further improve health care of the individual patient.

Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (Research Centre Karlsruhe) is one of the largest science and engineering research institutions in Europe and funded jointly by the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Its research and development programme is embedded in the superordinate program structure of the Hermann von Helmholtz Association of National Research Centeers and concentrates on the five research areas of structure of matter, earth and environment, health, energy and key technologies.

Eberhard Umbach, Prof. Dr., Chairman
Alexander Kurz, Dr., Deputy Chairman
Reinhard Maschuw, Prof. Dr.
Peter Fritz, Dr.

Bärbel Brumme-Bothe, Chair
Christel Adelhelm, Dr.
Hubertus Christ, Prof. Dr.
Melissa Anne Denecke, Dr.
Julian Würtenberger
Rainer Jäkel, Dr.
Günther Leßnerkraus
Hermann Krämer, Dr.
Joachim Schulz, Dr.
Gisela Otto, Dr.
Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph, Dr.

Oliver Kraft, Prof. Dr., Chairman
Manfred Thumm, Prof. Dr., Deputy Chairman
Georg Henneges, Deputy Chairman

Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
Germany
Phone: +49-7247- 820
Fax: +49-7247- 825-070

The regenerative biology programme of the FZK focuses on the engineering of tissues and organs. This includes the development of optimal substrates (scaffolds and membranes) based on functional polymer systems. The FZK develops bioreactors (including stem cell technologies) for preserving function and vitality of cell aggregates and scales them up for the subsequent complete replacement of desired organ function.

A second aspect of the programme is the improvement of neural coupling of man-made technologies to the human organism, e.g. the forearm prosthesis, which resembles the natural human hand and is able to carry out five different grips.