Hannover Medical School (Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, MHH), founded in 1965, belongs to Germany’s top five university medical centres. With its interdisciplinary and interactive mission, MHH entertains strong collaborative links to important academic and industrial research organisations in regional, national, and international networks, creating a fine balance of basic, translational, and clinical research. Our physicians and scientists cooperate to study human diseases and develop innovative strategies for diagnosis, prevention, and therapy, supported by strong intramural programmes for career development. MHH’s compact and well-equipped campus provides broad expertise in cutting-edge medicine and life sciences, with particular know-how in our three main research areas: immunity & infection, transplantation & regeneration, and biomedical technology & implants. These research priorities reflect our major clinical strengths, producing numerous innovations in the search for novel treatment options based on chemical compounds, biomaterials, cell and gene therapy, tissue engineering, and implants, including hybrid approaches. The competitiveness of our profile is continuously shaped by important centre grants of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Federal Ministry for Research (BMBF), and the State of Lower Saxony. Our clinical research arena includes the Clinical Research Centre (CRC Hannover), a state-of-the-art trial centre dedicated to phase I/II (including first-in-man) studies. For investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored clinical trials, MHH offers full institutional support in biometrics, pharmacovigilance, and Good Clinical Practice (GCP). In our basic research infrastructure, we operate several core units that ensure top performance in methodologies such as structural analysis, electron and fluorescence microscopy, non-invasive imaging (including nuclear medicine), immunomonitoring, deep sequencing and further omics disciplines, biobanking, cytometry and cell sorting, and development of Good Manufacturing Procedures for novel medicinal products. The core units contribute to MHH’s proactive measures for scientific quality assurance, complemented by basic and advanced training programmes in good scientific practice, ethics, and regulation, to the benefit of our patients. This institutional aim is reflected in our mission statement: “Every day for life”.

Hanover or Hannover, on the River Leine, is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), and was once, by personal union, the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg (later described as the Elector of Hanover). At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the electorate was enlarged to become a kingdom with Hanover as its capital. From 1868 to 1946, Hanover was the capital of the Prussian Province of Hanover and, afterwards, of the Hanover administrative region until that was abolished in 2005. Since 2001, it has been part of the Hanover district (Region Hannover), which is a municipal body made up of the former district (Landkreis Hannover) and the city of Hanover. (Note: Although both "Region" and "Landkreis" are translated as district, they are not the same.)

With a population of 518,000, Hanover is a major centre of Northern Germany and the country's thirteenth largest city. Hanover hosts annual commercial trade fairs such as the Hanover Fair and the CeBIT. Every year, Hanover hosts the Schützenfest Hannover, the world's largest marksmen's festival, and the Hannover Oktoberfest, the second largest festival of its kind in Germany. In 2000, Hanover hosted the World's Fair Expo 2000. The Hanover fairground, due to numerous extensions, especially for the Expo 2000, is the largest in the world. Hanover is of national importance because of its universities and medical school, its international airport, and its large zoo. The city is also a major crossing point of railway lines and highways (Autobahnen), connecting European main lines in both the east-west (Berlin-Ruhr area) and north-south (Hamburg-Munich, etc.) directions.

Hanover offers visitors the buzz of a vibrant, major city as well as plenty of green spaces, both in the centre and the suburbs. Eilenriede Forest, for example (Hanover's "green lung"), covers an area of 642 hectares, making it almost twice the size of New York's Central Park. This urban woodland area is just one of the many places where people can stroll, relax, jog, enjoy nature, or picnic. Hanover's "green ensemble" at the Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen includes a number of period gardens and fountains.