Julius Springer Award
Vascular medicine is a growing field with increasing importance in the overall concept of diagnosis and treatment of vascular diseases. The scientific editorial board of "Gefässchirurgie – Zeitschrift für vaskuläre und endovaskuläre Medizin" (Vascular Surgery – Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Medicine), with members from the German, Austrian and Swiss societies for vascular surgery, works together with Springer-Verlag to support scientific research in this field and, in particular, to promote young talent by awarding the Julius Springer Award for Vascular Medicine. The prize is awarded for a paper published in the journal. All original papers published in the journal during a given year are evaluated. The winner receives a cash prize of €1,000.
2026 Award Winner
All winners of the Julius Springer Prize for Vascular Medicine (formerly the Springer Award)
Annual Conference, Frankfurt am Main 2026
Dr Johannes Hatzl (Heidelberg)
Project: The use of large language models (LLMs) in vascular surgery: possibilities and limitations
Three-Country Conference, Lucerne 2025
Dr Julian-Dario Rembe (Düsseldorf)
Project: “Diagnostics beyond bacteria” – Wound swabs for the analysis of biomolecular disease patterns in chronic wounds
Annual Conference, Karlsruhe 2024
PD Dr Pavlos Tsantilas
Project: Peripheral arterial occlusive disease and wearables
Annual Conference, Osnabrück 2023
PD Dr Miriam Elisabeth Kliewer
Project: From crash test to the operating theatre: optimising stent graft design using numerical simulation
Tri-national Conference, Vienna 2022
Dr Panagiotis Doukas (Aachen)
Project: The outcome of thoracoabdominal post-dissection aortic aneurysms: the histopathological scar
Annual Conference, Mannheim 2021
PD Dr Mark Preuß
Project: Robot-based ultrasound guidance. Pilot study on robot-assisted, ultrasound-guided peripheral endovascular intervention on a phantom – the RoGUS-PAD project
Digital Annual Conference 2020
Dr André Hemmler, Munich
Project: The digital twin in endovascular care
Mannheim Annual Conference 2019
Dr René Rusch
Project: Experimental study on the effectiveness and safety of catheter-assisted thrombectomy
Bonn Annual Conference 2018
Dr Christian Schubert, MD (Frankfurt/Bad Nauheim)
Title: Collateral growth Therapeutic collateral growth: Studies using an experimental model of femoral artery ligation in mice.
Annual Conference, Bern 2016
Dr Christian-Alexander Behrendt (Hamburg)
Title: Percutaneous endovascular treatment of infrainguinal PAOD
Annual Conference, Münster 2015
PD Dr Andreas Kühnl (Munich)
Title: Epidemiology and inpatient care for vascular diseases in Germany
Annual Conference, Hamburg 2014
Dr Kischkel (Rostock)
Translational research
Tri-national Conference, Linz 2013
Dr Moritz Bischoff
Title: The two-stage approach as a strategy for reducing spinal ischaemia during the exclusion of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms
Annual Conference, Wiesbaden 2012
Dr Wilma Schierling
Title: Cerebral arteriogenesis – review and update
Annual Conference, Erlangen 2011
Dr Theodosios Bisdas
Title: In vitro effectiveness of impregnating vascular prostheses with species-specific bacteriophages for the prevention of prosthetic infections
Tri-national Conference, Berlin 2010
Dr Thomas Wille and Dr Ursula Rauen
Project: Development of a solution for the cold storage of blood vessels