first of all we would like to thank you very much for the large attendance on this training session, coming from all over Europe to Göttingen.

The 12 participants - four of them were women - were highly pleased with the training and the way of imparting the knowledge.

The training sessions on the technique on minimally invasive transversal aortic banding (MTAB) offered by the department of Cardiology and Pneumology at University Hospital Göttingen have easily exceeded all expectations. The participants have learned an innovative method which not only needs now to be established in their own labs, but also is a further step in orchestrating the efforts on developing new solutions for cardiac diseases.

We would like to share an excerpt from an E-mail: “… thank you all for the superb organisation, training and hospitality during the visit by members of my laboratory last week which they found extremely useful and also very enjoyable. They were full of praise and enthusiasm on their return! We are most grateful.“

Furthermore, many participants stated that it would be a great pleasure attending further session trainings of this kind with another main focus in future.