Awards and Grants

Dr. Alexander Nave

Dr. Alexander Nave and Torsten Rackoll (both Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) have won the Research and Innovation Award 2020 of the Society for Rehabilitation Sciences. They investigated the effect of fitness training on patients in stroke rehabilitation.

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Prof. Norbert Frey

Prof. Norbert Frey has been the new Medical Director of the Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology at Heidelberg University Hospital since October 2020.

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Prof. Wolfgang Koenig

Prof. Wolfgang Koenig (Department of Cardiology, German Heart Centre Munich) receives the Paul Morawitz Prize for his work in the field of epidemiology and biomarker research of cardiovascular diseases.

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Prof. Dr. Martin Uecker

Martin Uecker (University Medical Center Göttingen) will be a member of the Editorial Board of the medical journal "Magnetic Resonance in Medicine" of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), starting January 2021.

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Dr. Konstantin Stark

Dr. Konstantin Stark (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) receives an ERC Starting Grant for his work on immunological mechanisms of recurrent thrombosis. The grant supports outstanding young researchers.

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Prof. Martin Halle

Prof. Martin Halle is the president of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC) 2020-2022 and thus a member of the board of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

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Dr. Dario Bongiovanni

Dr. Dario Bongiovanni (Klinikum rechts der Isar) wins the Young Investigator Award at the ESC Congress 2020 in the session "Thrombosis" with his presentation "The pro-thrombotic transcriptomic signature of reticulated platelets in patients with chronic coronary syndrome".

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Prof. Konstantinos Stellos

Prof. Konstantinos Stellos (Goethe University Frankfurt | Newcastle University, UK) is the winner of the ESC Outstanding Achievement Award 2020, which honours two basic researchers for outstanding achievements in the early stages of their careers at the ESC Congress.

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Prof. Stefanie Dimmeler

Prof. Stefanie Dimmeler (Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt) was awarded the gold medal at the ESC Congress 2020, which was held digitally. The ESC thus honors cardiologists for their outstanding achievements in medicine.

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PD Dipl. Ing. Sophie Van Linthout, PhD

PD Dipl. Ing. Sophie Van Linthout, PhD (BCRT, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) is a new board member of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC. In the 2020-2022 legislature, she is one of two representatives of the "Basic Science Section".

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