International Neuroscience Institute

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International Neuroscience Institute GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1998
Seat Hanover , Germany
management Martin Kohnert, Madjid Samii
Number of employees 120 (as of July 22, 2005)
Branch Healthcare
Website www.ini-hannover.de

The International Neuroscience Institute on Rudolf-Pichlmayer-Strasse in Hanover

The International Neuroscience Institute GmbH (INI) in Hanover in the Groß-Buchholz district is a neurosurgical private clinic that was founded in 1998 by the neurosurgeon Madjid Samii . It is used to diagnose and treat diseases of the human nervous system. The clinic also has facilities for (animal) experimental and clinical research. Because of its unusual architecture, the clinic is popularly known as the “brain of Hanover” .

Foundation and financing

The shareholders of the GmbH include Madjid Samii, the Siemens group, the private clinic chain Asklepios and a banking consortium made up of Norddeutscher Landesbank and savings banks .

The foundation stone of the clinic building on the grounds of the Medical Park Hannover in the immediate vicinity of the Hannover Medical School took place on December 1, 1998, the topping-out ceremony was on June 18, 1999. The privately financed DM 140 million project was launched on July 21, 2000 at the EXPO Opened in 2000 . It was supported by the state of Lower Saxony with a guarantee in the amount of 83.2 million DM, according to other sources of 104 million DM. Just six months after opening, the clinic was threatened with bankruptcy due to insufficient capacity. In the absence of any prospect of economic management, the Lower Saxony state parliamentary group demanded from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in February 2002 that the state guarantee be due.

Clinic operation

The clinic has 100 patient beds. Between 2001 and 2005 around 15,000 patients from 80 countries received outpatient or inpatient treatment. Among the patients were celebrities such as the Uzbek Interior Minister Sakir Almatow (December 2005, see below) and the Spanish actor Javier Bardem (June 2009). The company Biizi.de organizes the treatment of patients from Russia and the CIS in the INI.

On January 1, 2003, Ulrich Bosch founded the Center for Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Traumatology as a private practice in the INI building.

Contrary to the statements made at the opening, the services of the INI are still generally not covered by the German statutory health insurance companies.

Research and Teaching

In December 2008, the INI announced a new method for the treatment of stroke patients with the help of genetically modified adult stem cells that are implanted in a kind of tea bag in the affected brain region in order to promote regeneration with secreted proteins. This report of a pilot operation was received nationwide with great attention by the media. Shortly afterwards, the German Society for Neurology (DGN) and the German Stroke Society (DSG) jointly criticized the public relations work of those involved and called them dubious: “It is incompatible with good scientific work to publicize a pilot test on a single patient carry with the assumption of having achieved a spectacular therapeutic success. This also applies to new methods that have been tested in animal experiments, as here, and assessed positively by an ethics committee. ”At the beginning of 2009, a clinical study on the method began in Hanover and Erlangen.

The research work of the INI is supported by the International Neurobionics Foundation, founded in 1995 . The president of the foundation is Madjid Samii. By signing a cooperation agreement with the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg , the INI in December 2005 to became affiliated institute . The INI has its own lecture hall.

architecture

The architectural design of the INI clinic building by the Munich office SIAT aims to represent the abstract outline of the human brain . The building has an elliptical floor plan with the largest dimension of around 68 by 47.2 meters (basement and 5th floor) and tapers from both the 5th to the 8th floor and from the 5th floor to the ground floor. In total, it is 38 m high and has nine full floors and a basement. The building was built by Philipp Holzmann AG as general contractor, ready for occupancy, on a plot of around 27,000 m² with a gross floor area of 19,000 m² between November 1998 and June 2000. The facade with an area of ​​6,000 m² consists mainly of partly colored glass elements. The outdoor facilities consist of a small park with a pond, a fern area and Japanese cherry trees .

Others

In June 2006, the foundation stone for the China-INI was laid next to the existing hospital in Beijing's Xuanwu district , and Beijing University is a cooperation partner. The building should be architecturally similar to the Hanoverian INI. It will have ten operating theaters and 254 beds; completion should be in 2013. It opened in 2016.

In February 2009 Samii began project development for an INI based on the Hanoverian model in Tehran / Iran. With around 500 beds and 54,000 square meters, the I-INI will be around four times the size of the Hanover one. The foundation stone for the building, which also resembles a human brain, was laid in April 2010, and the opening date is April 17, 2016.

The INI was mentioned in the context of Islamist terror threats in the context of the 2009 federal election by Bekkay Harrach and others. An approximately ten-minute video message from September 25, 2009, which is attributed to al-Qaida and in which the German-speaking Ayyub Almani also speaks, shows, among other things, images from the INI and refers to the treatment of the then Uzbek Interior Minister Sakir Almatov in December 2005 Clinic. His entry and subsequent treatment took place against an EU entry ban for "humanitarian reasons", and the exit despite a criminal complaint to the Federal Prosecutor's Office . Sakir Almatov was accused by the human rights organization Human Rights Watch of systematically torturing prisons and of bloodily suppressing an uprising in the eastern Uzbek city of Andizhan in May 2005 .

In January 2018, Mahmud Haschemi Schahrudi was treated in the clinic . He was Iran's chief judge from 1999 to 2009 and is considered a possible successor to the Iranian head of state Khamenei. Critics blame him for torture and death sentences, including against minors. When his treatment at INI became known, several criminal charges against Shahroudi were filed with the federal prosecutor's office.

Literature on INI architecture

Web links

Commons : International Neuroscience Institute  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Press release on the fifth anniversary of July 22, 2005 , accessed on September 30, 2009
  2. ↑ Own representation ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 29, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ini-hannover.de
  3. ↑ Baunetz report from June 18, 1999 , accessed on September 30, 2009
  4. ↑ EXPO-2000: Project description ( memento of October 25, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 30, 2009
  5. ↑ Baunetz report from December 3, 1998 , accessed on September 29, 2009
  6. ^ A b First operation in the "Hirn von Hannover" , report by Spiegel Online from October 2, 2000, accessed on September 29, 2009
  7. ↑ Carsten Holm: HOSPITALS: marble in the grave of millions . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 2001 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Press release No. 1270 of the BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament from February 11, 2002 ( memento from July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on September 29, 2009
  9. ↑ Javier Bardem is doing rehab in Regensburg , ap report in: Hamburger Abendblatt from June 16, 2009, accessed on September 30, 2009
  10. ^ Orthopedic surgery and sports traumatology in the INI ( memento from March 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 7, 2014
  11. ^ Stem cells in tea bags - New therapy for strokes , according to a dpa report in: Ärztezeitung.de of December 2, 2009, accessed on October 1, 2009
  12. ↑ Press release in Uni-Protocol dated December 11, 2008, accessed on October 1, 2009
  13. ^ Medicines factory in the head , in: Niedersächsisches Ärzteblatt dated February 9, 2009, accessed on October 1, 2009
  14. ^ Website of the International Neurobionics Foundation , accessed on September 29, 2009
  15. ↑ Press release of the University of Magdeburg , accessed on September 30, 2009
  16. ↑ Philipp Holzmann AG company on the building with floor plan and section ( Memento from March 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 415 kB), accessed on September 29, 2009
  17. ↑ Marcel Grzanna: A new brain for Beijing , in: Neue Presse, Hannover June 9, 2006, p. 4
  18. ^ A b Nicola Zellmer: The INI all over the world , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 3, 2010, accessed on November 26, 2012
  19. ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: This clinic in Beijing has a Hanoverian model - HAZ - Hannoversche Allgemeine. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved November 5, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Reinhard Urschel: Schröder calls for new thinking in Iran , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from February 20, 2009, accessed on September 30, 2009
  21. ↑ Juliane Kaune: INI in Tehran starts the construction phase , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of April 13, 2010, p. 15
  22. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: INI is a model for clinic in Tehran - HAZ - Hannoversche Allgemeine. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved April 15, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Souad Mekhennet: Al Qaida and Taliban target Germany , in: FAZ Online from September 26, 2009, accessed on September 30, 2009
  24. ↑ Vivien-Marie Drews / Tobias Morchner: Police take terror threats seriously. However, safety experts see no specific danger for Neuroklinik INI , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of September 30, 2009, p. 18
  25. ↑ Alwin Schröder / Viktor Funk: Report by human rights activists: Uzbek interior minister flees Germany , in: Spiegel online from December 19, 2005, accessed on September 30, 2009
  26. ↑ Stefanie Kaune / Vivien-Marie Drews: Terrorists threaten INI , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of September 29, 2009, p. 13
  27. ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung January 7, 2018: 200 Iranians demonstrate in front of the INI against the ex-chief of justice
  28. ^ TAZ January 9, 2018 The sick death judge

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '25.2 "  N , 9 ° 47' 54"  E