Awards and Grants

Dr. Gabriele G. Schiattarella (MDC/DHZC, Berlin) receives the Outstanding Investigator Award 2024 of the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR). The award honours scientists who make significant and independent contributions to the advancement of cardiovascular science and lead a growing, future-relevant research programme.

Once again this year, DZHK researchers are among the most influential researchers worldwide. The "Highly Cited Researchers 2023" list honours those, whose publications have been cited particularly frequently by peers.

Dr Karin Ziegler (Technical University of Munich) receives the prestigious research award from the German Foundation for Heart Research. Her research work on the treatment of sleep disorders in cardiovascular diseases is being supported with a total of 15,000 euros.

Prof. Silke Szymczak (IMBS, University of Lübeck) receives the highly endowed Dorothea Erxleben Female Investigator Award Grant of 100,000 euros from the Cluster of Excellence "Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation" (PMI) for her research on machine learning methods.

Prof. Julien Gagneur (Technical University of Munich) is one of a team of researchers to receive an ERC Synergy Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The highly endowed funding enables small groups of top researchers from different disciplines to tackle complex research questions.

Prof. Julio Saez-Rodriguez (Heidelberg University Hospital) is one of a team of researchers to receive an ERC Synergy Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The highly endowed funding enables small groups of top researchers from different disciplines to tackle complex research questions.

The research group led by Dr. Tobias Petzold (LMU Clinic, Munich) receives the Galenus Prize 2023 for its basic research into the development of thrombosis.

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Carsten Deppermann (University Medicine, Mainz) was accepted by the German Research Foundation (DFG) into the renowned Emmy Noether-Programme. The DFG is thus supporting Deppermann's research on thrombocytes with around one million euros over a six year period.

Dr Florian Gärtner (LMU Klinikum München) has received a Heisenberg Fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Researchers who meet the requirements to be appointed to a tenured professorship can use it to continue their own high-profile projects at a location of their choice and thus prepare themselves for a scientific leadership position.

Prof. Dr. Sandy Engelhardt (University Hospital, Heidelberg) receives 5 million euros from the Carl Zeiss Foundation as part of the CZS Breakthrough Programme for her research on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the treatment of heart failure.