Awards and Grants

Genome Biologics, co-founded by DZHK scientist Prof. Jaya Krishnan (Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität), receives €9.8 million from EIC Accelerator to accelerate development of its clinical programmes for the prevention of cardiotoxicity and heart damage.

Lars Kaderali (University Medicine Greifswald) is appointed as a member of a new Corona Expert Council to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.

A research team led by Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Zeisberg (University Medicine Göttingen) receives 700,000 euros from the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation in the competition for the most promising active ingredients in the fight against viral diseases.

Dr. Hendrik Bartolomaeus (Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Experimental and Clinical Research Center) receives the Siegenthaler Medal 2020 in silver from the Walter Siegenthaler Society for his research on high blood pressure.

Prof. Dr. Jan Scheitz (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) has been awarded the Stroke Prize 2021 by the German Society for Neurology (DGN) and the German Stroke Society (DSG) for his pioneering clinical work on heart-brain interaction in a stroke.

Dr. Benedikt Fels (University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck) received the "Young Investigator Award" for his work on the Piezo1 iron canal as a mediator of endothelial and vascular inflammation.

Prof. Jeanette Erdmann (University of Lübeck) receives the "BIH Excellence Award for Sex and Gender Aspects in Health Research 2021" from the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) in the Charité.

17 DZHK researchers were included in the list of "Highly Cited Researchers 2021". This puts them in the top percent of the most frequently cited scientists in their respective fields worldwide.

For his research on fat cell biology, Alexander Bartelt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, LMU) receives the research award of the German Obesity Society at the Obesity Congress 2021.