Awards and Grants

Angelos Karlas, leader of Clinical Bioengineering at MunichImaging, has won the Science Award 2021 of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gefäßchirurgie und Gefäßmedizin (DGG) for applying MSOT to molecular imaging of human carotid atherosclerosis.

Dr. Florian Weinberger and his team from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf received the Galenus Research Prize for their work on a new type of regenerative therapy approach for advanced heart failure.

Prof. Heribert Schunkert (Deutsches Herzzentrum München) is the new Deputy Chairman of the Board of the German Heart Foundation. He has already been a member of the Foundation's Scientific Advisory Board for ten years.

Prof. Burkert Pieske (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and German Heart Center Berlin) has been awarded the Franz Loogen Prize at the DGK Heart Days 2021 for his studies on calcium metabolism in heart failure.

Prof. Fabian Theis (Helmholtz Zentrum München) is awarded the Hamburg Science Prize 2021.The Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg is honouring him as a pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence in biomedical applications, above all in the area of single-cell biology.

Mahir Karakas from the DZHK-Site Hamburg obtained a BMBF grant (4.1 Mio. EUR) under his Co-affiliation "Department for Intensive Care Medicine". Within the project a randomized phase 2 trial will evaluate a new pharmacological compound in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

Stephan Lehnart (University Medical Center Göttingen and University of Göttingen) has been elected as Deputy Director of the Hertha Sponer College and Executive Board member of the Excellence Cluster “Multiscale Bioimaging: From Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells”.

Dr Simone-Franziska Glaser (Goethe University Frankfurt) is the new spokesperson of the Young-DZHK at the RheinMain partner site. Dr. Michael Molitor (Mainz University Medical Centre) is deputy spokesperson.

Prof. Jeanette Erdmann (University of Lübeck) was elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She is an expert in cardiogenetics. The Academy advises political decision-makers on socially relevant issues.