Professor Christian Bar

Christian Bär is Professor of Regenerative Cardiology. He holds a joint professorship between Hannover Medical School and the Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, providing an ideal environment to bridge basic and translational research. His research focuses on identifying functional non-coding RNAs that regulate neonatal heart regeneration and cardiac ageing. As telomere biology is closely linked to both ageing and regenerative processes, his group also investigates the interplay between non-coding RNAs and telomere dynamics. The overarching goal of his research is to translate insights from ncRNA and telomere biology into novel therapeutic strategies that enhance mammalian cardiomyocyte proliferation and promote cardiac regeneration to combat heart disease. To achieve this, his group has established a broad range of in vivo animal models and advanced three-dimensional stem cell-based culture systems.