
Why survival alone is not sufficient for transplant successs
Mariel Nöhre (DE)
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy · Hannover Medical School · Hannover
Dr. Mariel Nöhre is a senior physician and clinician scientist at the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. As part of her clinical activities, she performs psychosocial evaluations of potential living kidney donors and pre-transplant psychosocial evaluations of heart and lung transplant candidates. In the KTx360° trial, she conducted psychosocial diagnostics and provided treatment for renal transplant patients. In 2022, she finished her habilitation on "Psychosomatic Aspects in Organ Transplantation."
She is an active member of several medical societies in transplantation medicine. Since 2025, she has been head of the commission “Psychosomatics/ Psychology” of the German Transplant Society (DTG), since 2026, she has been the head of the “Psychosocial Care” group of the European Platform on Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects of Organ Transplantation (ELPAT) of the ESOT. In 2023, she became a member of the scientific advisory board of the German living donation registry (SOLKID-GNR and SOLiD-GNR). Since 2025, she has served as a principal investigator at the German Center for Lung Research (DZL). Dr. Nöhre is involved in several multicenter research projects. For her research, she has received scientific awards from different scientific societies.