Awards and Grants

PD Dr. Tim Seidler (Kerckhoff Clinic and Göttingen University Medical Centre) and his colleagues at Göttingen University Medical Centre were awarded the Wilhelm P. Winterstein Prize by the German Heart Foundation for their outstanding contributions to heart patch therapy.

Prof. Dr. Didier Stainier (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research) receives the Eva Luise Köhler Research Prize for Rare Diseases from the Eva Luise and Horst Köhler Foundation. He and his team are being honoured for their outstanding basic research into the muscle disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Prof Dr Harald Langer (University Medicine Mannheim) receives funding from the Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation (EKFS) totalling around 500,000 euros to conduct research in the field of cardiovascular systems biology (CVSB).

Prof Dr Dr Tobias Brügmann (University Medical Centre Göttingen) has helped establish the new DFG research unit, 'Dynamic Integration of GPCR signaling to control organ function and animal behaviour'. The DFG is funding the group for four years with 5 million euros.

Prof Dr Matthias Schulze (German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, DIfE) has been admitted to the prestigious Academia Europaea. Among others, this organisation advises governments and international bodies on scientific matters, and boasts many Nobel Prize winners among its members.

Prof Bettina Heidecker (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) has been appointed to a newly established W3 professorship for cardiomyopathies.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Fabian Theis (Helmholtz Centre Munich) was awarded funding in the ERC Proof of Concept round 2025 to conduct research into the precise targeting of drugs using single-cell genomics, computer models and generative AI.

Prof. Dr Tobias Petzold has been offered a W3 Heisenberg Professorship for ‘Cardiology with a focus on thromboinflammation and cardiovascular prevention’ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Prof. Henry Völzke (Greifswald University Medicine) has been admitted to the prestigious Academia Europaea. Among others, this organisation advises governments and international bodies on scientific matters, and boasts many Nobel Prize winners among its members.

Dr Ahmad-Fawad Jebran, Dr Malte Tiburcy and Prof. Tim Seidler (all University Medical Centre Göttingen) receive the Wilhelm P. Winterstein Prize of the German Heart Foundation e.V., endowed with 10,000 euros.