Highlights

Celebrating Our Award Winners at the Annual IMPRS-MOB Retreat

June 2026
There was plenty of science, great discussions and inspiration at this year's annual IMPRS retreat. Once again, the retreat brought our community together for an exciting exchange of ideas.
A particular highlight was the recognition of two exceptional student contributions:
Margo Favier received the Best Poster Award for her excellent scientific presentation, and Shamit Kumar won the Best Talk Award for his engaging talk.
We warmly congratulate both awardees!
Thanks also go to all the students who presented their work and helped to make the retreat such a vibrant and inspiring event.

Innovating hope: Our team wins Eva Luise Köhler Award for Duchenne muscular dystrophy research

June 2025
We are incredibly proud to see our doctoral researcher Lara Falcucci contribute to such pioneering work that advances both science and hope for rare disease therapies. Our MPI-HLR director Professor Dr. Didier Stainier and his team, including Dr. Christopher Dooley and Lara Falcucci, have won the prestigious Eva Luise Köhler Research Award for Rare Diseases (€50,000). The prize honours their basic research into Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a genetic rare disease.
© Photographer: Andrea Katheder

Fan Wu receives the Max Planck Society's Peter Hans Hofschneider Prize 2023

June 2023
Congratulations and special honor for our IMPRS alumna Fan Wu from the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim:
She received the Peter Hans Hofschneider Prize for her doctoral thesis where she discovered that asthma disease in humans is associated with a significant reduction in the presence of 5-hydroymethylcytosine (5-hmC) in airway smooth muscle cells.
The Max Planck Society honours outstanding work in the field of molecular medicine every two years with the Peter Hans Hofschneider Prize.

picture © David Ausserhofer / Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Person holding the certificate at a science poster presentation.

Best scientific doctorate at the medical faculty at Goethe University Franfurt, 2020

October 2022
Congratulations to our very own IMPRS alumnus Jorge Carvalho! He received the Rudi Busse doctoral award 2020 for the best scientific doctorate in the Faculty of Medicine at Goethe University Frankfurt. Jorge did his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in the Group of Prof. Dr. Nina Wettschureck.

Outstanding! Mohamed El-Brolosy receives Otto Hahn Medal and Peter Hans Hofschneider Prize

June 2021
Congratulations! Double award for Dr. rer.nat. Mohamed El-Brolosy from the Department of "Developmental Genetics" at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim. Mohamed received the Otto Hahn Medal 2021 and the Peter Hans Hofschneider Prize for ground-breaking discovery of molecular mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of transcriptional adaptation.
Mohamed continues his career at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, USA as "Junior Fellow" of the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Read the full article here

detailed 3D heart model with red and blue vascular structures; fluorescence microscopy

Winner image of the March 2021 contest

March 2021
Congratulations to our IMPRS student Maria Elisa Almeida Góes (Dept. Braun) for being the winner of the first internal contest for the best scientific image. The internal contest was organized by the PhD Committee of the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research.

Two individuals, one holding a certificate in a formal setting with plaques.

Dr. Karla Rubio receives Research Award of the German Society for Pneumology

July 2020
Congratulations to our IMPRS Alumna Dr. Karla Rubio from Guillermo Barreto's research group at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim. She receives this year's Research Award of the German Society for Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine. The young scientist is being honoured for her outstanding contribution to basic research in the field of ideopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

This podcast series is hosted for doctoral researchers by doctoral researchers.

July 2020
One of the hosts is IMPRS-MOB student Srinath Ramkumar interviewing two of our IMPRS Alumni: Mohamed El Brolosy and Giulia Boezio about their "Life of a Doctoral Researcher"

Listen to their full interview.

smiling awardee holding the award in his hand

International Birnstiel Award for Mohamed El-Brolosy

November 2019
Congratulations Mohamed!
Our IMPRS Alumnus Mohamed El-Brolosy received the International Birnstiel Award 2019 for his outstanding achievements in his doctoral thesis.
Read more
Watch the YouTube video of his award speech
Foto: Ludwig Schedl, IMP.

portrait picture of the smiling scientist

"Be brave and try out"

2019
Our IMPRS Alumna Dr. Claudia Gerri is talking about her experience, motivation and career path in the "Offspring Magazine 2019". Claudia recieved the Otto Hahn Medal in 2018 and continued her scientific career as postdoctoral fellow at the Francis Crick Institute in London.
Read the full articel here:
https://www.phdnet.mpg.de/122309/Offspring_2019.pdf

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