Awards and Grants

Prof. Dr. Donato Santovito (University Hospital of Munich) receives the 2025 Outstanding Achievement Award from the ESC Council for Basic Cardiovascular Science (CBCS) for his outstanding scientific achievements in cardiovascular research.

Dr Ornela Velollari (University Medical Centre of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) receives an award in the Young Investigator Award Session in Atherothrombosis, Coronary, Aortic and Peripheral Artery Disease for her work on ‘Endotypes of angina with non-obstructive coronary arteries’.

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dominik Müller (Max Delbrück Centre) receives the American Heart Association's Excellence Award for Hypertension Research.

Doctoral student Katharina Kurz (University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein / Lübeck Campus) receives an ESC Working Group Award 2025 in the field of myocardial function for the project ‘Neutrophil-driven inflammation in takotsubo syndrome: insights from patient data and a translational murine model’.

Dr Mahak Singhal (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg) receives an ERC Starting Grant 2025 for the project ‘DeClocking the vascular rhythmic control of tissue homeostasis and disease initiation’ (acronym: Vascular-Rhythm).

Dr Kami Alexander Pekayvaz (University Hospital Munich) was honoured as LMU Clinician Scientist of the Year 2025 at the annual reception of the LMU Faculty of Medicine for his work on immunological signatures in acute and chronic coronary syndromes.

Dr. Rainer Kaiser (University Hospital Munich) receives five years of funding from the Corona Foundation for his junior research group. The aim of the project is to identify new therapeutic approaches to infective endocarditis.

Prof. Didier Stainier (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research) has secured a Proof of Concept Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to advance an RNA-based therapeutic strategy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

PD Dr Constanze Pfitzer (German Heart Centre Charité, DHZC) will become Scientific Director of the Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects and the National Registry for Congenital Heart Defects (NRAHF) on 1 September 2025.

PD Dr Johannes Neumann (University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf) receives funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) Heisenberg Programme for his project ‘Novel concepts for the application of biomarkers in cardiovascular medicine – from diagnosis and prognosis to treatment management’.