Awards and Grants

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dominik Müller (Max Delbrück Centre) receives the American Heart Association's Excellence Award for Hypertension Research.

Doctoral student Katharina Kurz (University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein / Lübeck Campus) receives an ESC Working Group Award 2025 in the field of myocardial function for the project ‘Neutrophil-driven inflammation in takotsubo syndrome: insights from patient data and a translational murine model’.

Dr Mahak Singhal (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg) receives an ERC Starting Grant 2025 for the project ‘DeClocking the vascular rhythmic control of tissue homeostasis and disease initiation’ (acronym: Vascular-Rhythm).

Dr Kami Alexander Pekayvaz (University Hospital Munich) was honoured as LMU Clinician Scientist of the Year 2025 at the annual reception of the LMU Faculty of Medicine for his work on immunological signatures in acute and chronic coronary syndromes.

Dr. Rainer Kaiser (University Hospital Munich) receives five years of funding from the Corona Foundation for his junior research group. The aim of the project is to identify new therapeutic approaches to infective endocarditis.

Prof. Didier Stainier (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research) has secured a Proof of Concept Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to advance an RNA-based therapeutic strategy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

PD Dr Constanze Pfitzer (German Heart Centre Charité, DHZC) will become Scientific Director of the Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects and the National Registry for Congenital Heart Defects (NRAHF) on 1 September 2025.

PD Dr Johannes Neumann (University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf) receives funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) Heisenberg Programme for his project ‘Novel concepts for the application of biomarkers in cardiovascular medicine – from diagnosis and prognosis to treatment management’.

PD Dr. Tim Seidler (Kerckhoff Clinic and Göttingen University Medical Centre) and his colleagues at Göttingen University Medical Centre were awarded the Wilhelm P. Winterstein Prize by the German Heart Foundation for their outstanding contributions to heart patch therapy.

Prof. Dr. Didier Stainier (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research) receives the Eva Luise Köhler Research Prize for Rare Diseases from the Eva Luise and Horst Köhler Foundation. He and his team are being honoured for their outstanding basic research into the muscle disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy.