Hannover Medical School

University medical center in Hanover, Germany Hannover Medical SchoolMedizinische Hochschule HannoverMottoIn necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritasTypePublicEstablished1965PresidentDenise Hilfiker-KleinerTotal staff>11.000Students3,997LocationHanover, Lower Saxony, Germany52°23′01″N 9°48′16″E / 52.383659°N 9.804494°E / 52.383659; 9.804494 CampusUrbanWebsitewww.mhh.de/en/ The Hannover Medical School (German: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, abbreviated to MHH) was founded as Germany's first independent medical university. Located in Hanover, it is a maximum care hospital with a supra-regional catchment area, a university offering courses in medicine and dentistry as well as numerous other subjects. It is also a research institution focusing on infection and immunity, transplantation and regeneration, biomedical engineering and implants. History The MHH was founded in 1965. In June 1961, the German Science and Humanities Council recommended that seven new academies of medicine be established in Germany so that the number of medicine students would increase by 7,000. Within the month, the Parliament of Lower Saxony approved plans to establish