Dr Nils Krüger (German Heart Center Munich and Harvard University) was awarded the 2024 Annual Fellowship and a special research grant on heart failure from the German Heart Foundation.
Prof Volkmar Falk (Deutsches Herzzentrum Charité) was elected as the new President of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) at this year's annual meeting in Lisbon.
Carolin Gragoll and Timo Rusack (both University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein/Lübeck) receive the Hans-Jürgen Bretschneider Poster Prize at the Basic Science Meeting at the German Society of Cardiology Meeting in Hamburg.
PD Dr Hannelore K. Neuhauser (Robert Koch Institute, Berlin) receives the Franz Gross Science Award of the German Hypertension League for her decades of scientific achievements.
Andy Wing Chun Man (Institute of Pharmacology, Mainz University Medical Centre) is one of two winners of the Boehringer Ingelheim Prize 2024, which is endowed with 30,000 euros.
Awards for eleven young researchers at the Young DZHK Retreat
Erik Asmus, Maria-Kyriaki Drekolia, Dr Rainer Kaiser, Carolin Knauer, Marin Kuntic, Mike Morneweg, Celine Müller, Lukas Narjes, Marie Nehring, Niklas Petzold, Dr Emmanouil Solomonidis.
Dr Niklas Beyhoff (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) received the "Young Investigator Award in Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies" at the ESC Congress 2024.
Dr Kai-Uwe Jarr (Heidelberg University Hospital) has been awarded funding of 1 million euros over five years by the Corona Foundation for a junior research group to investigate new therapeutic approaches in cardiovascular immunotherapy.
Dr Eros Elias Rawish und Jakob Voran (both University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein) receive the Precision Health in Schleswig-Holstein (PHSH) Shared Campus Award 2024 for their project ‘Harnessing Multiomics Analyses to Uncover Novel Therapeutic Targets in Calcific Aortic Valve Disease.’
Prof. Dr Norbert Frey (Heidelberg University Hospital) has been the new site spokesperson in Heidelberg/Mannheim since 1st of July 2024. Prof. Dr Johannes Backs (Heidelberg University Hospital) takes on the role of co-spokesperson together with Prof. Dr Jörg Heineke (University Hospital Mannheim).