GLOSSARY AND LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
AAV
Adeno-Associated Virus
AF
Atrial Fibrillation
AniLIMS
Animal Laboratory Information Management System
BMBF
Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung)
BMFTR
Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt)
CCTP
CellNetworks core technology platform (certified UHD core facilities)
cKO
Conditional Knockout
CM
Cardiomyocyte
CRC
Collaborative Research Center
DCM
Dilated Cardiomyopathy
DEI
Measures for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
DFG
German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
DKFZ
German Cancer Center (Deutsche Krebsforschungszentrum)
DZHK
German Center for Cardiovascular Research (Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung)
EAB
External Advisory Board
EC
Endothelial cell
ECAS
European Center for Angioscience
ECG
Electrocardiography
ECI
Early Career Investigator
ECM
Extracellular matrix
EF
Ejection Fraction
EHT
Engineered Heart Tissue
EIPP
EMBL International PhD Program
elabFTW
Electronical Labbook for The Win
ELN
Electronic Laboratory Notebook
EMBL
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
EMBL-EBI
EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
EMBO
European Molecular Biology Organization
EMS
Engineering Molecular Systems
ERC
European Research Council
ESC
European Society of Cardiology
EXC
Cluster of Excellence (Exzellenzcluster)
ExStra
Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments
ExU
University of Excellence
FAIR
A set of guidelines for making research data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable
FB
Fibroblast
FELASA
Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations
FoF-1
Field of Focus 1 (Molecular Foundations of Life
FoF-2
Field of Focus 2 (Patterns and Structures in Mathematics, Data, and the Material World)
FOGD
Research-oriented equality and diversity standards
FOR
DFG Research Unit (Forschungsgruppe)
FP-1
Funding period 1
FP-2
Funding period 2
GEO
Gene Expression Omnibus
GEROK
Protected research time (50 %) for physician scientists
GRC
Gordon Research Conference
GRK
DFG Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg)
HBIGS
Heidelberg Biosciences International Graduate School
HCM
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
HDAC
Histone Deacetylase
heiArchive
Infrastructure of Heidelberg University for "cold" data storage
heiCLOUD
A fully integrated cloud service for data sharing and joint work on documents
heiDATA
Infrastructure of Heidelberg University for "hot" data storage
heiDOCS
Quality program for doctoral candidates and junior researchers at Heidelberg University
heiINNOVATION
Heidelberg University's Transfer Agency
heiONLINE
Heidelberg University's central platform for digital offerings such as lectures and panel discussions
heiQUALITY
Comprehensive quality management system of Heidelberg University
heiSERVICES
Include the central administration, the University Library, the University Computing Center, and further decentralized researchsupporting structures
heiSKILLS
Competence and Language Center at Heidelberg University
heiTRACKS
Integrated platform for postdoctoral career development
HFD + L-Name
High fat diet + N-(ω)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester
HFpEF
Heart Failure with preserved Ejection Fraction
HFrEF
Heart Failure with reduced Ejection Fraction
HGSMathComp
Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences
hHO
Human Heart Organoid
HI-TAC
Helmholtz Institute for Translational AngioCardioScience
hiPSC
Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell
HITS
Heidelberger Institute for Theoretical Studies
HPC-Cluster
High-Performance Computing Cluster
I/R
Ischemia/Reperfusion
ICI
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor
ICM
Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
IMSEAM
Institute for Molecular System Engineering and Advanced Materials
IP
Immunoprecipitation
iPSC
Induced pluripotent stem cell
iPSC-CM
iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes
iPSC-EC
iPSC-derived endothelial cells
iPSC-FB
iPSC-derived fibroblasts
iRODS
Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System
IRTG
Integrated Research Training Group
ISO
Isoproterenol
KD
Knockdown
KFO
DFG Clinical Research Unit (Klinische Forschungsgruppe)
KI
Knock-in
KO
Knock-out
L-NAME
N-(ω)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester
LIMS
Laboratory Information Management System
LINDA
Linear integer programming for network reconstruction approach
LSDF@hd
Large Scale Data Facility
LV
Left ventricle
LVAD
Left Ventricular Assist Device
MCC
Molecular Cardiology Class
MDC
Max Dellbück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
MI
Myocardial infarction
MIMI
Minimal Invasive Myocardial Infarction
MK
Marsilius Kolleg
MTA
Material Transfer Agreement
NCBI
National Center for Biotechnology Information
NFDI
National Research Data Infrastructure
NMD
Nonsense Mediated Decay
NRVCM
Neonatal rat ventricular cardiomyocytes
OMP
Olympia Morata Program
OpenBIS
Digital notebook, Data management and Inventory Management
ORAB
O-Ring Aortic Banding
PBMCs
Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells
PI
Principal Investigator
POEM
Precision Organoid Engineering for Multi-Organ Interaction Studies
PPP
Pentose Phosphate Pathway
PTC
Premature Termination Codon
RBP
RNA-Binding Protein
RDM
Research Data Management
RDU
Research Data Unit
RIP
RNA Immunoprecipitation
RME
Random Monoallelic Expression
RTG
Research Training Group
RTPs
RNA-Tagged Proteins
scRNA-seq
Single Cell RNA Sequencing
SDS@hd
Scientific Data Storage
SODAR
System for Omics Data Access and Retrieval
SOP
Standard Operating Procedures
SPP
DFG Priority Program (Schwerpunktprogramm)
SVH
Science Value Heidelberg GmbH
TAC
Thesis Advisory Committee
TCA
Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle
TG
Transgenic
TRR
DFG CRC Transregio
UHD
Heidelberg University
UNIFY
Unit for Family, Equality and Diversity
URZ
University Computing Center
WP
Work Package
WT
Wildtype
ZMBH
Center for Molecular Biology Heidelberg