Awards and Grants

Prof. Stefanie Dimmeler (Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt) was awarded the gold medal at the ESC Congress 2020, which was held digitally. The ESC thus honors cardiologists for their outstanding achievements in medicine.

PD Dipl. Ing. Sophie Van Linthout, PhD (BCRT, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) is a new board member of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC. In the 2020-2022 legislature, she is one of two representatives of the "Basic Science Section".

Prof. Michael Potente, formerly of the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim, has become a BIH professor with a focus on "Translational Vascular Biomedicine" at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) since August 2020.

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.