The Marga-and-Walter-Boll-Laboratory for Cardiac Tissue Engineering was established with support of the Marga and Walter-Boll Foundation (Kerpen, Germany) and is situated at the Center for Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Medical Faculty, University of Cologne. 

Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) and organotypic cells differentiated from hiPSCs are the focus of research projects. Our team works in several areas related to iPS cell technologies including but not limited to cardiac tissue engineering, cardiac organoids, cardiac cell therapy, cardiac diseases, stem cell biotechnology and biomaterial research.

Building my research carrier from my days as a doctoral student till today has become only possible by the support of private foundations, which have given me trust and funds and enabled me to test new ideas. I thankfully aknowledge the A.M. Wilsing-Stiftung, Elisabeth und Rudolf Hirsch-Stiftung, Else-Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung, Freunde und Förderer der Universität zu Köln, Hans und Gertie Fischer-Stiftung, Hirsch-Foundation, Imhoff-Stiftung, Maria Pesch- Stiftung, and Dr. Robert Pfleger-Stiftung. 

Further support was provided by Köln Fortune, Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne, German Research Foundation, Ministry of Science and Education, Ministry of Economy, European Fund of Regional Development, and North-Rhine-Westphalia.

Prof. Dr. Kurt Pfannkuche