News & Events
Poster Award for Almke Bader
06.05.2025
Almke Bader from the Walzog Group was honored with the Poster Award for presenting the best poster at the TRR332 Retreat 2025. Congratulations!
Poster Award for Aleksandra Kurova
12.04.2025
Aleksandra Kurova from the Sperandio Group won the Poster Award at the TRR359 PILOT International Symposium 2025 for her poster presentation "Role of placenta-derived peptide PIF in perinatal immune cell regulation". Congratulations!
Poster Award for Katrin Nussbaumer
28.03.2025
Katrin Nussbaumer from the Sperandio Group won the Poster Award at the 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Glycobiology. Congratulations!
BMC Insights (YouTube video)
18.03.2025
What causes heart rhythm disorders, and how are immune cells involved in inflammation? These are the questions we are working on at our research institute. Take a look behind the scenes of our research in our new YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB_H2pMzne4
Franziska Heim wins BVS Speaker Award
04.04.2024
Franziska Heim from the Deindl Group won the second place in the Basic Vascular Science Paper Competition 2024 with the paper title "Platelet independent NO-sGC-cGMP axis promotes arteriogenesis". Congratulations!
Konstantin Hennis receives Fritz Külz Prize
14.03.2024
Dr. Konstantin Hennis from the Wahl-Schott Group has been awarded the Fritz Külz Prize of the German Society for Pharmacology and Toxicology (DGPT) in recognition of a methodological paper published in Nature Protocols (PMID: 35314849). The prize is awarded every two years for outstanding experimental pharmacological publications and is the DGPT's highest award for young scientists. Congratulations!
SFB/TRR 359 launched
01.01.2023
In the Transregional Collaborative Research Center "Perinatal Development of Immune Cell Topology (PILOT)", scientists of the Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg together with researchers of LMU Munich, the University Hospital RWTH Aachen and other institutions investigate the development of the immune system around birth. PILOT was approved by the German Research Foundation on November 25, 2022 and will be funded with a total of 12 million euros from January 1, 2023 for an initial period of four years. Co-speaker is Prof. Dr. Markus Sperandio from the Institute of Cardiovascular Physiology and Pathophysiology. Congratulations!
Christian Wahl-Schott becomes new Director of the Institute
01.06.2022
The Institute of Cardiovascular Physiology and Pathophysiology welcomes Prof. Dr. med. Christian Wahl-Schott as its new director. The former head of the Institute of Neurophysiology at Hannover Medical School becomes W3-Professor and Chair of Physiology with focus on Vegetative Physiology at the LMU Munich Medical Faculty and takes over the head position of the institute. Welcome, Christian!
The Wahl-Schott Group investigates the physiological function and pathophysiological dysfunction of ion channels that relate to a broad spectrum of clinically relevant human diseases.
Photo: Jan Greune