One gala, two prizes, two federal ministers and many winners: prestigious Prizes were awarded at the Springer Medicine Gala on Thursday evening in Berlin: the Galenus von Pergamon Prize for Innovations in Pharmacology and the Springer Medicine Charity Award for Special Social Commitment.
Springer Medizin publishing group supports innovations in the field of pharmacology since 1985 and awards the Galenus von Pergamon Prize every year for outstanding developments in pharmacological research. The Prize is awarded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, represented this year at the gala by Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger.
The Galenus von Pergamon Prize is awarded in several categories: Primary Care, Specialist Care, Orphan Drugs and Basic Research. We are delighted that IPEK scientist Sarajo Kumar Mohanta and team received the Galenus Prize 2022 for Basic Research for their work on neuroimmune cardiovascular interfaces in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, published in Nature this year. In this puiblication, Sarajo and his group have been able to demonstrate for the first time that nerve signals are exchanged between arteries and the brain in atherosclerosis.
Springer Medizin / David Vogt ©
We are also grateful that Sarajo Mohanta received the Becht Prize from the German Heart Research Foundation (Deutsche Herzstiftung) at the annual conference ('Heart Days') of the German Cradiac Society (DGK) earlier this month. With the August Wilhelm and Lieselotte Becht Research Prize, the German Heart Research Foundation rewards research achivements based on scientific excellence and clinical relevance in the field of cardiovascular diseases.
