Dr. med. Wolfram Poller (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) receives the Hassenfeld Cardiovascular Scholar Award from Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr Tharusan Thevathasan (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) receives the ‘Young Investigator Award’ of the European Society of Cardiology at the ‘Acute Cardiovascular Care’ congress in Florence.
Prof. Gabriele G. Schiattarella (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) has been awarded a W2 Professorship for Cardiometabolic Diseases at the Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité.
Prof. Dr Dr Alexander Teumer (University Medicine Greifswald) receives the W2 professorship for Genetic Epidemiology, funded by the DFG Heisenberg Programme.
Prof Dr Jan Philipp Junker (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) has been awarded a full tenured Professorship at the Institute of Pathology and is researching tissue regeneration with the aim of understanding the self-repair of mammalian organs.
Dr Kami Alexander Pekayvaz (LMU Klinikum München) is starting a new DZHK junior research group. The DZHK is funding research into the adrenaline-neutrophil axis with 1.65 million euros over the next six years.
Prof. Dr Fabian Theis (Helmholtz Centre Munich) receives the ISCB Innovator Award, a prestigious award from the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), for his outstanding contributions to computational biology.
Prof. Dr Christoph Knosalla (German Heart Centre Berlin, DHZC) receives the Ernst Derra Prize, the oldest and most prestigious scientific award of the DGTHG, endowed with 7,500 euros.
Dr Leonard Pitts (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) receives a grant of 60,000 euros from the Dr Rusche project funding programme of the DGTHG and the Deutschen Stiftung für Herzforschung.
Dr Maik Pietzner (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) receives W2 professorship for ‘Health Data Modelling’ to research disease-specific changes in human genes.