Awards and Grants

Prof Dr Friederike Cuello and Dr Till Joscha Demal (both UKE Hamburg) have received funding of 750,000 euros from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for their three-year translational research project on the inheritance of aortic diseases.

Dr Christine Maria Poch (TU Munich) receives the Jung Career Award of the Hamburg Jung Foundation for Science and Research with a grant of 210,000 euros.

Prof Dr Stefanie Dimmeler (Goethe University Frankfurt) receives the Le Gros Clark Prize Award for her lecture on "Cardiovascular Ageing: Unravelling the Interplay of Vessels, Nerves, and Inflammation".

Prof Dr Gerd Hasenfuß (University Medical Center Göttingen) receives the Leopold Lichtwitz Medal of the German Society of Internal Medicine (DGIM). It is the highest award of the specialist society and recognises his great services to internal medicine.

Dr Teresa Gerhardt (Charité Berlin) receives the Prevention Award 2024 from the German Society of Internal Medicine (DGIM) and the German Foundation of Internal Medicine (DSIM) for her research work on precision prevention after a heart attack at the 130th Congress of Internal Medicine.

Prof. Alessandra Moretti (Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich) has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for her research project EPICURE. She is using organoids to find new ways to repair the human heart.

Alessio Alogna, Tan An Dang, Laura Erika Maria Hannen, Norbert Hübner, Dominik Jurczyk, Badder Kattih, Thorsten Keßler, Wolfgang Koenig, Nils Krüger, Julian Leberzammer, Sebastian Ludwig, Steffen Massberg, Ann-Kathrin Rahm, Christoph Reich, Moritz von Scheidt, Tharusan Thevathasan, Manuela Thienel, Elisabeth Unger, Stephan Willems, Marco Witkowski

Prof Dr Lutz Ackermann (Georg-August-University, Göttingen) receives the Otto Roelen Medal 2024 from Dechema and the German Catalysis Society (GeCatS).

Univ-Prof. Dr Wolfgang Kuebler (Charité Berlin) receives the "Julius H. Comroe, Jr., Distinguished Lectureship 2024", one of the most important awards in the field of physiology, at the American Physiology Summit.

Prof Dr Tim Friede (University Medical Center Göttingen) receives the Susanne Dahms Medal for outstanding services to the International Biometric Society and its German Region (IBS-DR).