Awards and Grants

Prof. Thomas Walther (University Hospital Frankfurt) receives funding of 152,000 euros from the German Heart Foundation and the Horst Haas and Irene Haas Scheuermann Foundation for a study on the prediction of life-threatening type A aortic dissection for a period of two years.

Dr Jan Philipp Junker (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for his research on how the heart can heal itself. He is studying zebrafish hearts that are capable of doing this. The grant of two million euros for five years goes to excellent scientists at the beginning of an independent career.

Prof. Dagmar Krefting is the new director of the Institute of Medical Informatics at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG). She had already taken over as acting director of the Institute since September 2019.

Prof. Stefanie Dimmeler (University Hospital Frankfurt) receives the Otto Warburg Medal of the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) for her pioneering work in the field of cardiovascular diseases. The Medal has been endowed with prize money of 25,000 euros.

Prof. Roland Tilz takes over as head of the new Clinic for Rhythmology at the Lübeck Campus of the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH). He previously headed the Electrophysiology Department, which was dissolved in the course of the new founding.

Dr Mahir Karakas (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf) has been awarded the "Else Kröner Clinician Scientist Professorship" for his COVID-19 research.

Prof. Constanze Schmidt (Heidelberg University Hospital) has been awarded the “Else Kröner Clinician Scientist Professorship” for her research work on atrial fibrillation.

Dr Alessio Alogna (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) wins the Young Investigator Award at the "HFA Winter Meeting on Translational Heart Failure Research 2022" of the European Society of Cardiology with the lecture "Inhalation of peptide-loaded nanoparticles improves cardiac function in pacing-induced heart failure .”

Dr Moritz von Scheidt (German Heart Center Munich) receives 1 million euros from the Corona Foundation for 5 years, with the long-term goal of being able to better assess the cardiovascular risk of CHD patients in the future and therefore better treat them with medication.