Awards and Grants

Prof. Michael Gotthardt & Prof. Benjamin Meder

Prof. Michael Gotthardt (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, MDC) and Prof. Benjamin Meder (Heidelberg University Hospital) are part of a transatlantic research group that is receiving $7 million from the Leducq Foundation to study the process of "alternative splicing" in heart muscle cells, which plays a role in protein production.

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Prof. Michael Boutros

Prof. Michael Boutros (University Medical Centre Mannheim) is the spokesperson for the Collaborative Research Centre 1324 “Mechanisms and Functions of Wnt Signaling” and continues to be funded by the DFG with around 11.5 million euros.

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Dr. Moritz von Scheidt

Dr Moritz von Scheidt (German Heart Institute Munich) receives the Uta und Jürgen Breunig-Forschungspreis 2021 of the German Heart Foundation and the DGIM. The prize recognises his research work on atherosclerosis with a focus on coronary heart disease.

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Magdalena Ellen Haid

Magdalena Ellen Haid (Greifswald University Hospital) wins the Young Investigator Award at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2021 in the session "Primary care and risk factor management".

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Prof. Dr. Christoph Herrmann-Lingen

Prof. Dr. Christoph Herrmann-Lingen (University Medical Centre Göttingen) is receiving 1.6 million euros for a clinical study funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme as part of the ESCAPE project. The study is testing a new treatment approach in elderly, multimorbid patients with chronic heart failure who are psychologically stressed.

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Congratulations to the DZHK award winners of the 87th Annual Meeting of the DGK!

S. Backhaus, M. Berlin, S.I. Bibli, C.S. Börschel, S. Dimmeler, J. Friebel, R. Hinkel, B. Köll, S. Müller, P. Münkler, H.A. Katus, F. Leuschner, C. Oeing, H. Sager, A. P. Schön, A. Schuster, H. Thiele, M. Völkers, F. L. Zimmermann, W.-H. Zimmermann

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Prof. Volkmar Falk

Prof. Volkmar Falk (German Heart Center Berlin) was newly elected to the Board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Thorax-, Herz- und Gefäßchirurgie (DGTHG) as 1st Vice President.

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Dr. Thomas Stocker

Dr Thomas Stocker (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich) receives the Werner Forßmann Research Award of the Medical Faculty of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He has investigated the extent to which pulmonary hypertension influences mortality after catheter-based heart valve repair.

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Prof. Oliver J. Müller

Prof. Oliver J. Müller (University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel) is receiving almost 360,000 euros and 280,000 euros from the BMBF for two projects with the aim of improving gene transfer with viral vectors in certain gene therapies.

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Dr. Marie Schafstedde

Dr. Marie Schafstedde (German Heart Center Berlin) receives the Young Investigator Award of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Pädiatrische Kardiologie und angeborene Herzfehler (DGPK).

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