Awards and Grants

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Diana Lindner (Universitäres Herz- und Gefäßzentrum Hamburg) receives 80.000 euros from the Deutsche Herzstiftung for the project „Kardiale Inflammation durch direkte Virusinfektion bei verstorbenen COVID-19 Patienten”.

Dr. Leo Johannes Nicolai (LMU Klinikum der Universität München) receives support for his project „HEART Immunophenotyping in COVID-19 – Analyse von Blut-Leukozyten bei COVID-19 erkrankten Patienten mit KHK, Herzinsuffizienz, und kardiovaskulärem Risikoprofil” with a grant of 130.000 euros from the Deutsche Herzstiftung.

Dr. Katharina Lechner (Deutsches Herzzentrum München) receives 53.900 euros from the Deutsche Herzstiftung for the project „Metabolisch-inflammatorischer Phänotyp und klinischer Verlauf bei COVID-19”.

Dr. Sebastian Cremer (Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt) receives a grant for the project „Defining an immune cell signature of COVID-19 infections in patients with atherosclerosis". The project will be supported by the Deutsche Herzstiftung with 70.000 euros.

Prof. Dr. Eike Nagel (Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt) receives 110.000 euros from the Deutsche Herzstiftung for the project „Erfassung der kardialen Herzbeteiligung in COVID-19 Überlebenden ”.

Prof. Gerd Hasenfuß (University Medical Center Göttingen) is the spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre 1002 "Modulatory Units in Heart Failure", which has been extended for another four years and is funded by the German Research Foundation with 14.6 million euros.

Prof. Wolfram Hubertus Zimmermann (University Medical Center Göttingen) and four project partners are the second winner in the innovation competition "Organ replacement from the laboratory" with the IndiHEART project and receive 2 million euros from the BMBF.

Prof. Lucie Carrier (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf) is the European coordinator of a research group that is receiving 6.5m euros from the Leducq Foundation within the Transatlantic Network of Excellence and is investigating the role of the cytoskeleton in heart failure.

Prof. Florian Leuschner (Heidelberg University Hospital) is the European coordinator of a research group that is supported by the Leducq Foundation within the Transatlantic Network of Excellence. The team is investigating inflammation and fibrosis as hallmarks of heart failure.

Prof. Wolfram Zimmermann (University Medical Center Göttingen) is the European coordinator of a research group supported by the Leducq Foundation within the Transatlantic Network of Excellence. The team is investigating genome editing for the treatment of heart failure.

PD Dr. Thorsten Kessler (German Heart Centre Munich, Technical University of Munich) receives the Prevention Prize 2020 of the German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM).

The physicist Prof. Jens Frahm (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry) is awarded the Werner von Siemens Ring of the foundation of the same name for his achievements. He has further developed MRI into a fast and thus clinically mature technology.