Awards and Grants

Dr Leonard Pitts (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) receives a grant of 60,000 euros from the Dr Rusche project funding programme of the DGTHG and the Deutschen Stiftung für Herzforschung.

Dr Maik Pietzner (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) receives W2 professorship for ‘Health Data Modelling’ to research disease-specific changes in human genes.

Dr Christian Schlein (University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf) receives the Dr Martini Prize 2025,awarded by the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) for his excellent research into the metabolism of polyunsaturated fatty acids.

PD Dr Bettina Heidecker and Dr Phillip Suwalski (DHZC, Campus Benjamin Franklin) receive project funding from the German Heart Foundation for their research into new treatment approaches for cardiomyopathies and heart failure.

Dr Kami Pekayvaz (University Hospital of Munich) receives the Bayer Thrombosis Research Award 2025 for his outstanding research in translational thrombosis research.

PD Dr Alexander Teumer (University Medicine Greifswald) has been awarded a Heisenberg Professorship by the German Research Foundation in the field of ‘Genetic Epidemiology’.

Prof. Dr. mult. Stefan W. Hell (Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Natural Sciences) receives the highest honour of the state of Lower Saxony for his scientific achievements and services to the state's research landscape.

Prof Andreas Daiber and Prof Thomas Münzel (Mainz University Medical Centre) are coordinating the EU project ‘MARKOPOLO’ with 8 million euros in EU funding and 1.28 million euros from Switzerland. From 2025, the consortium will be investigating the health effects of traffic noise and air pollution.

Prof Daniel Rückert (Technical University of Munich) receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2025, endowed with 2.5 million euros, for his research into AI-assisted medical imaging.

Dr. med. Jasper Iske (Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité) receives the "DTG Young Investigator Award" for his research on the transplantation of older donor organs.