Awards and Grants

Prof. Dr. Dr. Fabian Theis (Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Health and Environment) receives the “AI for Science Fund” by Google.org for two AI research projects as part of the opening of Google’s first German AI Center in Berlin.

Dr Carla Abrahamian (German Heart Centre Munich) has been awarded a Young Investigator Fellowship by the European Atherosclerosis Society.

At the Annual Meeting of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery and the German Society for Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Defects, the following were honored: Dr. Nele Rolfs (Young Investigator Award), PD Dr. Franziska Seidel (Poster Award 2026), Prof. Dr. Katharina Schmitt (Election to the DGPK Executive Board), Dr. med. Marcin Zaradzki (Vascular Surgery Research Award of the DGTHG), Dr. med. Caroline Radner (Georg Wilhelm Rodewald Award), Dr. med. Linda Grefen (Award of the DGTHG in cooperation with the Gerald Asamoah Foundation).

Dr. Julius Kaemmel (German Heart Center, Charité) has been awarded the Dr.-Rusche Research Project. The funding, totaling approximately €60,000, will enable him to collaborate with researchers at the Institute for Cardiovascular Computer-Assisted Medicine (ICM) to develop an AI-based virtual feedback system.

PD Dr. med. Monika Sadlonova (University Medical Centre Göttingen) receives the research prize for cardiovascular medicine, jointly awarded by the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery (DGTHG) and the Ulrich Karsten Foundation, worth €10,000, for her prospective FINDERI study on the identification of early risk factors for postoperative delirium following heart surgery.

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kelle (German Heart Centre Charité) receives the SCMR Advocacy Award 2026 from the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance for his outstanding services to the global promotion of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.

Prof. Benjamin Meder, MD (Heidelberg University Hospital) has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Heart Foundation (Deutsche Herzstiftung e.V.).

Prof. Dr. Carsten Tschöpe (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin) was honoured for his outstanding scientific achievements at the HFA Winter Research Meeting on Translational Heart Failure in Berlin.

Prof. Dr. Stefanie Dimmeler (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt) receives the Hector Foundation's Science Award, worth €200,000, for her outstanding scientific achievements in developing new approaches to repairing damaged hearts.

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Jana Grune (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin) took up a DFG Heisenberg Professorship at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin in December 2025.