Awards and Grants

Dr Julian Wagner (Institute for Cardiovascular Regeneration, Goethe University Frankfurt) is receiving over half a million euros in funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) to research the inter- and transgenerational metabolic imprinting of the neuro-cardiopulmonary interface in the context of health and ageing.

DZHK-PI Prof. Dr. Hendrik Sager (Technical University of Munich) has been appointed W3 Professor for Cardiovascular Inflammation.

Dr Tharusan Thevathasan (German Heart Centre at Charité) receives Charité's 2025 Innovative Teaching Award for his project “STS – Students Teach Students Academy”, which arose from an open dialogue with PJ students.

Dr Shqipdona Lahu (German Heart Centre Munich) receives the Dimitris N. Chorafas Prize 2025 for her outstanding dissertation entitled ‘Novel Aspects of Antiplatelet Drug Therapy in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention’.

Prof. Dr. med. Gabriele G. Schiattarella (German Heart Centre at Charité and Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine) was named one of the ‘100 Heads of Capital City Science 2025’ by Berlin's Tagesspiegel newspaper.

Prof. Dr. Inke R. König, Medical Biometry and Statistics – University of Lübeck, has been accepted as a new member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg.

Prof. Dr. Evaldas Girdauskas (University Heart and Vascular Centre, UKE) has been appointed as Director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Cardiac Surgery, taking over from Prof. Dr. Hermann Reichenspurner, who is retiring.

Prof. Dr. Ingo Hilgendorf (German Heart Centre Charité, DHZC) has been appointed Director of the Clinic for Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine and appointed to the W3 professorship for Cardiology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Prof. Dr. Donato Santovito (University Hospital of Munich) receives the 2025 Outstanding Achievement Award from the ESC Council for Basic Cardiovascular Science (CBCS) for his outstanding scientific achievements in cardiovascular research.

Dr Ornela Velollari (University Medical Centre of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) receives an award in the Young Investigator Award Session in Atherothrombosis, Coronary, Aortic and Peripheral Artery Disease for her work on ‘Endotypes of angina with non-obstructive coronary arteries’.