Awards and Grants

Prof. Dr. Eckhard Wolf (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) is the recipient of the "Münster Heart Center Lecture". He conducts research in the field of xenotransplantation. With this award, the Münster Heart Center Foundation annually honors internationally outstanding researchers.

Dr Torben Lange and Prof. Andreas Schuster (both University Medical Center Göttingen) receive the 16th Gerald M. Pohost Runner-up Award of the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. The prize is awarded for the best publication of the year in the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.

Prof. Stefan Engelhardt (Technical University of Munich, TUM) and Prof. Stefanie Dimmeler (Goethe University Frankfurt) lead the Collaborative Research Center "Non-coding RNA in the Cardiovascular System" as spokesperson and co-spokesperson. The DFG has extended the funding by four years.

Prof. (em.) Hugo A. Katus (Heidelberg University Hospital) was honored as a pioneer of heart attack diagnostics with the Order of Merit, the highest award of the state of Baden-Württemberg: Minister President Winfried Kretschmann presented him with the order at the ceremony marking the state's foundation day.

Prof. Leif-Hendrik Boldt and Dr Djawid Hashemi (both Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) receive the Max Rubner Award of the Charité Foundation for their innovation project "Integration of the patient perspective into routine care: Model project based on atrial fibrillation". The award honours employees and members of the Charité who would like to realise an innovative idea within their clinic.

Rainer Kaiser (LMU Klinikum) receives around 290,000 euros from the Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation to establish a research group over the next three years.

Prof. Stefan Blankenberg (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE) was elected as the future President of the German Cardiac Society (DGK) for the term 2025-2027.

Stefan Blankenberg, Pieterjan Dierickx, Maria Kyriaki Drekolia, Rajinikanth Gogiraju, Jana Grune, Hugo A. Katus, Rebecca Maitra, Alessandra Moretti, Eike Nagel, Valentina Puntmann, Tobias Rheude, Johann Rößler, Richard Schell, Constanze Schmidt, Mariana Shumliakivska, Sabine Steffens, Andreas Zeiher

Prof. Rainer Böger (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE) receives the ERC Advanced Grant for his research project NO PRESSURE to improve the diagnosis and therapy of the lung disease COPD.

Dr Claudia Crocini (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) is starting a new DZHK junior research group and is researching how male and female heart cells differ. The DZHK will fund the research groups for the next six years.