Dr Nina Sophie Pommert (University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein / Lübeck Campus) has been awarded the Shared Campus Award 2026 together with fellow researchers. The award is presented to research tandems from Lübeck and Kiel and includes one year of seed funding amounting to €10,000.
Prof. Stefanie Dimmeler (University Hospital Frankfurt) has been conferred the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Dr. Julian Wagner (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main) has been awarded the main prize of the 2026 Boehringer Ingelheim Prize, which comes with a project grant of 55,000 euros, for his research into cardiac ageing.
Prof. Norbert Hübner (Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine (MDC)) has been elected, along with 70 other researchers, to the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), a lifetime honour recognising outstanding research achievements.
Prof. Holger Gerhard (Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine) is one of 71 researchers who have been elected to the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO). The nomination is considered a lifetime honour for outstanding research achievements.
Prof. Leo Kurian (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for the project "Translation-Guided RNA Engineering Platform for Cardiac Haploinsufficiency" (acronym: TRANSLATE).
Prof. Thomas Eschenhagen (University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf) has won the Distinguished Leader Award 2026 from the International Society for Heart Research.
Prof. Renate Schnabel (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf) will be the new chair of the Council on Stroke of the European Society of Cardiology beginning in August.