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Heidelberg University Hospital
Im Neuenheimer Feld 672
69120 Heidelberg
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Contact
Technical contact for the website
Kai Rudolph
Phone: 06221 56-37463
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Responsible Chambers
- Physicians: State Medical Chamber of Baden-Württemberg
- Dentists: Dental Chamber of Baden-Württemberg
- Pharmacists: State Chamber of Pharmacists of Baden-Württemberg
- Psychotherapists: State Chamber of Psychotherapists of Baden-Württemberg
Use of artificial intelligence
This website was built with the support of generative artificial intelligence (Anthropic Claude), covering program code, design and drafts of some texts. All content has been reviewed and approved by those responsible in the Eden / Frey lab, which bears editorial responsibility.
Microscopy images come from the lab's own work. Structure figures are renderings of published structural data; the source is given with each figure. The illustrations accompanying the research topics were created with generative AI and are marked “AI-generated illustration” at each figure. They are artistic depictions, not measured data, and not to scale; labels and the relationships shown were set by the lab and checked against the original articles cited.
Last updated: October 2026
Third-Party Pages
The pages of Heidelberg University Hospital contain numerous links (cross-references), including banners to external third-party sites. These are identified as such. When these links are activated, a new window opens and the user is redirected to the third-party provider’s content.
For direct or indirect references to external websites that are outside the area of responsibility of the University Hospital, liability would only come into effect if the University Hospital had knowledge of the content and it were technically possible and reasonable to prevent use in the case of unlawful content. The University Hospital therefore expressly declares that at the time the links were set, the corresponding linked pages were free of illegal content. It has no influence whatsoever on the current and future design and content of the linked pages of these third-party providers. It therefore expressly distances itself from all content of all linked pages that were changed after the links were set.
Disclaimer
1. Content of the Online Offering
The internet portal of Heidelberg University Hospital provides its patients and other interested parties with diverse and high-quality information.
Heidelberg University Hospital assumes no guarantee for the timeliness, correctness, completeness, or quality of the information provided. Liability claims against UKHD relating to material or immaterial damages caused by the use or non-use of the information provided, or by the use of incorrect and incomplete information, are fundamentally excluded, unless UKHD can be proven to have acted with intent or gross negligence.
All offers are non-binding. UKHD expressly reserves the right to change, supplement, or delete parts of the pages or the entire offer without prior notice, or to temporarily or permanently cease publication.
2. References and Links
For direct or indirect references to external websites (“hyperlinks”) that are outside the area of responsibility of UKHD, liability would only come into effect if UKHD had knowledge of the content and it were technically possible and reasonable to prevent use in the case of unlawful content.
UKHD hereby expressly declares that at the time the links were set, no illegal content was recognizable on the pages to be linked. UKHD has no influence on the current and future design, content, or authorship of the linked pages. It therefore expressly distances itself from all content of all linked pages that were changed after the links were set. This statement applies to all links and references set within its own internet offering as well as to external entries in guest books, discussion forums, link directories, mailing lists, and all other forms of databases set up by UKHD to which external write access is possible. For illegal, incorrect, or incomplete content and especially for damages arising from the use or non-use of such information, only the provider of the page referred to is liable, not the one who merely refers to the respective publication via links.
3. Copyright and Trademark Law
UKHD endeavors to observe the copyrights of images, graphics, audio documents, video sequences, and texts used in all publications, to use images, graphics, audio documents, video sequences, and texts created by itself, or to resort to license-free graphics, audio documents, video sequences, and texts.
All brand names and trademarks mentioned within the internet offering and possibly protected by third parties are subject without restriction to the provisions of the applicable trademark law and the ownership rights of the respective registered owners. The mere mention does not lead to the conclusion that trademarks are not protected by the rights of third parties!
The copyright for published objects created by UKHD itself remains solely with the author of the pages. Reproduction or use of such graphics, audio documents, video sequences, and texts in other electronic or printed publications is not permitted without the express consent of UKHD.
On the use of artificial intelligence, see “Use of artificial intelligence”.
4. Legal Validity of this Disclaimer
This disclaimer is to be regarded as part of the internet offering from which reference was made to this page. If sections or individual terms of this statement are not legal or correct, the content or validity of the other parts remain uninfluenced by this fact.