Prof. Dr. Annette Schürmann from the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) received the DDG’s highest award, the Paul Langerhans Medal. She is member of the DZD Executive Board. The DDG honored the extraordinary scientific life’s work of the diabetes expert.
Further prizes for DZD researchers:
- The Young Investigator Award (€20,000) went to Dr. Raffaele Teperino (Helmholtz Munich) for his research on the role of paternal health in metabolic programming and the risk of obesity and insulin resistance in children.
- The Werner Creutzfeldt Prize (€10,000) was awarded to Prof. Carolin Daniel (Helmholtz Munich / LMU Munich) for her work on regulatory T cells and their potential for immunotherapies in type 1 diabetes.
- The Ernst Friedrich Pfeiffer Prize (€10,000) went to Dr. Teresa Rodriguez-Calvo (Helmholtz Munich) for her research into the immunopathology of type 1 diabetes and the interaction between immune cells and beta cells.
- Dr. Svenja Meyhöfer (University of Lübeck) was awarded the Silvia King Prize.
- The Helmuth Mehnert Project Grant der DDG was given to Leontine Sandforth (Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases (IDM) of Helmholtz Munich at the University of Tübingen).
- Hans Christian Hagedorn Project Funding: Dr. Katharina Laubner (University Medical Center Freiburg) receives funding for an innovative research project to improve diabetes care.
- Friedrich Arnold Gries Prize: Prof. Dr. Dan Ziegler (German Diabetes Center) was honored for his many years of excellent research on diabetic neuropathy.
- The DDG's Doctoral Prize went to Dr. Nina Trinks (German Diabetes Center) for her dissertation on the subject of „Low Physical Fitness and Low Thyroid Function as Cardiovascular and Metabolic Risk Factors in Diabetes mellitus“.
