Science Award of the University to Sina Rhein, Riccardo Costalunga and Julica Inderhees
Dr. rer. nat. Sina Rhein, Dr. rer. nat. Julica Inderhees and Riccardo Costalunga received the Science Award of the University 2024 in recognition of outstanding publication achievements in the Medical Section for their work “The reactive pyruvate metabolite dimethylgloxal mediates neurological consequences of diabetes”. The award ceremony took place on December 5 in the Colosseum.
Teaching award 2024 to Dr. Walter Häuser
Dr. Walter Häuser receives again the teaching award humane medicine of the University of Lübeck. The prize is awarded within the students' semester evaluation.
Dr. Manon Rivagorda receives Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Manon Rivagorda receives a Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2 years.
Habilitation Dr. Jan Wenzel
On January 9, Dr. Jan Wenzel completed his habilitation at the University of Lübeck in the field of pharmacology and toxicology with his inaugural lecture "Blood is good, but vessels can do more - a look at the vascular system of the brain".
“Young Investigators best abstract”
At the 47th Annual Scientific Congress of the German Hypertension League 2023, Luis Hernandez Torres received the "Young Investigators best abstract" award (€500) for his work entitled "Incidence of hippocampal aneurysms and microbleedings is increased in atherosclerotic mice leading to a reduction in cerebral blood flow and an impairment of long term memory".
Poster Prizes of the CBBM Research Day 2023 to Dorothea Ziemens and Akila Chandrasekar
The 1st poster prize at this year's international CBBM Research Day went to Dorothea Ziemens for her poster entitled: "Carbon dioxide inhibits brown fat thermogenesis in a cerebrovascular reactivity-susceptible manner". Akila Chandrasekar won the 3rd prize for her poster. Congratulations!
Dieter-Klaus-Förderpreis to Laura Nickels
At the 46th Annual Scientific Congress of the German Hypertension League 2022, Laura Nickel received the Dieter Klaus Award (€2,500) for her work entitled "The AT1-Receptor Blocker Telmisartan Reduces Intestinal Mucus Thickness in Obese Mice".
Otto-Roth-Preis 2022 to Dr. Laura Beckmann
On November 7, 2022, Dr. Laura Beckmann was awareded with the Otto-Roth-Preis 2022 for her doctoral thesis titled: „Die antiadipösen Effekte unter AT1-Rezeptorblockade korrelieren mit einer spezifischen Veränderung des Darmmikrobioms“. The pice is endowed yearly by the University of Lübeck abd by the association "Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer der Universität zu Lübeck" to recognize an outstanding doctoral thesis within themedical section. The price is endowed with 2500 €. The laudatory speech was given by Prof. Dr. Walter Raasch.
Poster award to Nina Feller
Nina Feller received the poster award at the yearly CBBM Research Days for her poster "Involvement of Tanycytes in Amyloid-β peptide Transport ".
Young Investigator Award to Josephine Lampe
Josephine Lampe received the Young Investigator Award at the 7th German Pharm-Tox Summit of the German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (DGPT; 7-10 March 2022) for the publication on long Covid „The SARS-CoV-2 main protease Mpro causes microvascular brain pathology by cleaving NEMO in brain endothelial cells“.
Science award of the university 2021
Dr. Jan Wenzel, Josephine Lampe und Dr. Helge Müller-Fielitz were awarded with the science prize of the university 2021 for the publication „The SARS-CoV-2 main protease Mpro causes microvascular brain pathology by cleaving NEMO in brain endothelial cells“. The ceremony took place on Nov 24th at the Kolosseum.
Otto-Roth-Preis 2021
Dr. med. Elias Rawish was awarded on 24.11.2021 with the Otto-Roth-Preis for the best doctoral thesis within the medical section of the university of Luebeck for the year 2021, titled „Die Prävention einer Diät-induzierten Adipositas durch den AT1-Rezeptorblocker Telmisartan ist mit einer verminderten Lipotoxizität im Hypothalamus assoziiert“. The price is endowed with €2500,-. The laudatory speech was given by Prof. Dr. Walter Raasch.
Werner-Forßmann-Nachwuchsstipendium to Laura Nickels
Laura Nickel received the Werner-Forßmann-Nachwuchsstipendium 2020 for special scientific achievements, für besondere wissenschaftliche Leistungen, awarded by the Medical Faculty of the Ruhr-University Bochum from the „Stiftung Kardiologie 2000“. This price was awarded online at March 12th 2021 during the 2. Nordwestdeutschen Symposium Herz und Diabetes des Herz-und Diabeteszentrum NRW (HDZ NRW), Bad Oeynhausen.
Teaching award 2020 to Dr. Walter Häuser
Dr. Walter Häuser receives again the teaching award humane medicine of the University of Lübeck. The prize is awarded within the students' semester evaluation.
Elias Rawish awarded with Fritz-Külz-Preis
Biennially, this with 1500€ endowed price is awarded for an outstanding article from a German-speaking pharmacologic institute. Honored was the article "Telmisartan Prevents Development of Obesity and Normalizes Hypothalamic Lipid Droplets“ published in Journal of Endocrinology. The publication resulted from Elias Rawishs' doctoral thesis at the Institute for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Luebeck under supervision of Prof. Walter Raasch. Together with the cooperating partner PD Dr. Lars Kuerschner fromLife and Medical Sciences Institut Bonn it could been shown that the angiotensin-II receptor blocker Telmisartan protects from diet-induced adipositas, associated with a reduced hypothalamic lipotxocity and inflammation. The ceremony took place beginning of March 2020 at the 86. annual meeting of the German Society for experimental and clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology in Leipzig.
Dieter-Klaus-Förderpreis to Dr. Jan Wenzel
Dr. Jan Wenzel has received the renowned Dieter-Klaus-Award of the German Society for Hypertonia. He was awarded for the so far unpublihed work on secondary effects of e.g. by hypertonia induced vessel damages on the brain. The ceremony took place on 22nd November 2019 at the yearly meeting of the German Hochdruckliga in Berlin.
With this award the German Society for Hypertonia promotes young scientists who conducted outstanding work in the field of experimental hypertonia research.
Award for Marietta Zille
Marietta Zille received the "Outstanding Team Presentation Award of the Interstellar Initiative 2018-2019" of the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development and the New York Academy of Sciences in New York, NY, USA on 1st February 2019.
Teaching award to Dr. Walter Häuser
Dr. Walter Häuser receives the teaching award humane medicine 2018 of the University of Lübeck. The prize is awarded within the students' semester evaluation. The award ceremony will take palce on 8th October 2019 in the course of the welcome reception at the beginng of the winter semester.
Salus-Medal to Prof. Dr. Walter Raasch
The president of the Pharmacist Association Gerd Ehmen awarded the Salus medal to Prof. Dr. Walter Raasch (left) und Prof. Dr. Bernd Clement (right).
At the opening ceremony of the spring meeting of the Pharmacist Association of Schleswig-Holstein on 13th April 2019 Prof. Dr. Walter Raasch was awarded the Salus medal for his extraordinary honorary commitment in further training of pharmacists. This award exists since 1997 and was up to now only awarded seven times.
Prize for the best talk to Josephine Lampe
Josephine Lampe received the prize for the "best talk" by a PhD student at the 4th European NF-κB Subunit Workshop in Grasse, France on 10th October 2018.
Poster Prize for Dr. Melanie Wannick
Dr. Melanie Wannick received the 1st poster prize at the 84. Annual Meeting of the DGPT in Göttingen from 26th February to 1st March 2018 for her topic „The role of HCA2 activation for the treatment of pemphigoid diseases".
Prize for the best talk to Laura Nickel
Laura Nickel awarded the prize for the best talk at the 42th Annual Congress of the "Deutsche Hochdruckliga e.V." in Berlin (22nd to 24th November 2018).
Doctoral Prize
Dr. Johanna Schuchard (MD) was awarded on Nov 15th 2017 with the Otto-Roth-Prize for her doctoral thesis entitled "An Angiotensin(1-7)-dependent mechanism contributes to prevention of weight gain under AT1-receptor blockage in rats". The prize is endowed with 2500€ and is awarded yearly for the best doctoral thesis within the medical faculty of the University of Luebeck. See here for more information.
Prizes for "Best Talk" and Poster Prize
At the 41. Hypertonie Kongress/11. Diabetes Herbsttagung in Mannheim from 10th to 11th November 2017 Elias Rawish was awarded with the prize "Best Talk", endowed with 550,-. The title of his talk was „Hypothalamic Lipids are normalized in HFD-fed mice when treated mit Telmisartan“.
Furthermore, Franziska Schuster received the poster prize for her poster titled „AT1 antagonists prevent metabolic syndrome in mice despite high caloric diet“.
Poster Prize
On 20th March 2015 Dr. Helge Müller-Fielitz was awarded with a poster prize at the 58. Symposium of the German Society for Endocrinology (DGE). The title of his poster was „ß-Tanycytes in the regulation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid-axis".
Novartis-Prize for therapy relevant pharmacological research
The Novartis-Prize for therapy relevant pharmacological research, which is endowed with 10.000 EUR, was awarded to Prof. Dr. Schwaninger and his colleague Prof. Dr. Nina Wettschureck from the Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim.
Poster Prize
Dr. Jan Wenzel was awarded with the poster prize from the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie e.V. (German Society for Pharmacology and Toxicology). The title of his poster was „NEMO in brain endothelial cells maintains the blood-brain barrier“.
Research Prize
Dr. rer. nat. Sonja Binder was honored with the Renate-Maaß-Research-Prize 2014 for her outstanding work in the field of brain research. This prize (5000 Euro) is yearly awarded by the Renate-Maaß-Society at the University of Lübeck.
Poster Prize
Hui Chen was awarded the 3rd poster prize on the occasion of the 4th Annual Cluster Symposium Inflammation at Interfaces 2013.
Doctoral Prize
The Germen Hypertension Society honoured Dr. Anja Miesel (MD) during the 36th scientific meeting in Berlin with the Award (3000 Euro) for the best doctoral thesis in 2012.
Science Award
Dr. Dirk Ridder receives the Heinrich-Dräger-Science Award 2012
