Prof. Dr. Martin Halle (Technical University of Munich), together with his team, is awarded the Hufeland Prize by the German Medical Insurance for demonstrating the positive effects of exercise during dialysis.
The team from the University Medical Centre Göttingen (UMG) and the Lübeck Campus of the University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) receives the German University Medicine Award 2024 for "heart patches"—laboratory-grown heart tissue for patients with severe heart disease.
Dr Zhifen Chen (Technical University of Munich) receives a grant of 1 million euros from the Corona Foundation for her research into obesity as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
Dr Nils Krüger (German Heart Center Munich and Harvard University) was awarded the 2024 Annual Fellowship and a special research grant on heart failure from the German Heart Foundation.
Prof Volkmar Falk (Deutsches Herzzentrum Charité) was elected as the new President of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) at this year's annual meeting in Lisbon.
Carolin Gragoll and Timo Rusack (both University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein/Lübeck) receive the Hans-Jürgen Bretschneider Poster Prize at the Basic Science Meeting at the German Society of Cardiology Meeting in Hamburg.
PD Dr Hannelore K. Neuhauser (Robert Koch Institute, Berlin) receives the Franz Gross Science Award of the German Hypertension League for her decades of scientific achievements.
Andy Wing Chun Man (Institute of Pharmacology, Mainz University Medical Centre) is one of two winners of the Boehringer Ingelheim Prize 2024, which is endowed with 30,000 euros.
Awards for eleven young researchers at the Young DZHK Retreat
Erik Asmus, Maria-Kyriaki Drekolia, Dr Rainer Kaiser, Carolin Knauer, Marin Kuntic, Mike Morneweg, Celine Müller, Lukas Narjes, Marie Nehring, Niklas Petzold, Dr Emmanouil Solomonidis.
Dr Niklas Beyhoff (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) received the "Young Investigator Award in Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies" at the ESC Congress 2024.