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Young Investigator Awards at the DZHK Retreat in Königstein


This year's Young Investigator Awardees: Eric Schoger, Wesley Abplanalp, Christoph Hofmann (not in picture: Lucas Bacmeister)


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Early career scientists from all DZHK partner sites presented excellent research during this year's annual DZHK Retreat in Königstein. The best presentations were each awarded a 300 Euro Young Investigator Award:

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Winning talks

Wesley Abplanalp (Frankfurt): Single-cell RNA-sequencing defines monocyte clusters in patients with mutations leading to clonal hematopoiesis: implications for prognosis of ischemic heart disease

Christoph Hofmann (Heidelberg): Translational regulation determines the acute cardiac response to ischemia/reperfusion

Eric Schoger (Göttingen): CRISPRa mediated in vivo activation of endogenous gene expression in the postnatal mammalian heart

Winning poster

Lucas Bacmeister (Hamburg): A close up on murine pressure-volume-analysis under beta-adrenergic stimulation: positive end-expiratory airway-pressure, hypertonic saline injection and endystolic pressure-spikes