PhD Scholarship
The DGG awards a doctoral scholarship worth €3,000 (sponsored by BD) to students and postgraduate research assistants to support experimental doctoral research in the field of vascular medicine. The recipient will also receive a free three-year membership of the DGG, commencing in the year following the award.
The specific requirements are as follows:
- A letter of recommendation from the doctoral thesis supervisor (a member of the DGG)
- A brief description of the project (in the standard DFG format)
- Explanation of the relevance/significance of the work
- Explanation of how the work meets sustainability criteria in accordance with the DFG sustainability guidelines “Experiments / Field Trials / Surveys”
- Submission of a final report within five years of the award of the grant. Failure to submit will result in the clinic/institute being barred from all DGG prizes and grants
Please also note the general rules for the awarding of prizes and grants.
The winners of the PhD scholarship are
Annual Conference, Frankfurt am Main, 2026
Sophia Luise Kollien (Münster)
Project: Investigations into fatty acid receptors 2 and 3 (FFAR2/3) in the context of human aortic pathologies
Three-Country Conference, Lucerne 2025
William Dollmeyer (Düsseldorf)
Project: Establishment of a 1H-based non-invasive imaging method for investigating ischaemic spinal cord damage in mice
Annual Conference, Karlsruhe 2024
Cathryn Bassett (Aachen)
Project: The role of intramural matrix metalloproteinases 2 and 9 in the context of degenerative wall remodelling processes in thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms in Marfan and non-Marfan patients
Annual Conference, Osnabrück 2023
Inka Terhorst (Münster)
Project: Investigations into the long-term effects of gut microbiota metabolites on the integrity and regeneration of the aortic endothelium
Tri-national Conference, Vienna 2022
Frieda Frank (Dresden)
Project: The role of NADPH oxidase 4 in atherosclerotic vascular diseases
Annual Conference, Mannheim 2021
Paul Moritz Stammer (Münster)
Project: Investigations into the detection of extracellular domains of VE-cadherin as a potential indicator of endothelial damage in
aortic dissections and aneurysms
2020
Digital Annual Conference Nikolaus-Felix Spell Menges (Munich)
Project: Correlation between the histomorphological heterogeneity of abdominal aortic aneurysms and clinical and radiological features
2019
Mannheim Annual Conference Yew Hyun Rhee (Düsseldorf)
Project: Implications of osteopontin and osteopontin fragments on stiffness-related gene expression in aortic aneurysms
Annual Conference, Frankfurt am Main 2017
Ms Firouza Dahi (Frankfurt am Main)
Project: Creation of mRNA profiles in patients with peripheral arterial disease
Three-Country Conference, Bern 2016
Ms Elena Marchiori (Münster)
Project: The role of microRNAs as potential predictors in the follow-up of abdominal aortic aneurysms.
Annual Conference, Münster 2015
Ms Laura Timbul (Düsseldorf)
Project: The influence of recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) and carbamylated erythropoietin (cEPO-FC) on hypoxia/reoxygenation damage in neuronal cell cultures.