Former IPEK student Maximilian J. Schloss will be awarded the LMU medical faculty doctoral Prize from the Dr. Hildegard and Heinrich Fuchs Foundation for his outstanding doctoral thesis on (the):
"Influence of neutrophilic granulocytes and the circadian rhythm on wound healing after myocardial infarction."
The winners were selected among the best "summa cum laude" doctoral theses of the year by the Medical Faculty of the LMU. The prize is endowed with € 5,000.
As part of his medical doctorate at the IPEK in the group of Professor Sabine Steffens, Dr. Schloss found that the time of the day when an infarction takes place actually influences the extent of the inflammatory reaction after a heart attack. The results of these studies have been published in the renowned Journals EMBO Molecular Medicine, European Heart Journal and ATVB.
Dr. Schloss graduated with a medical degree in 2017 with a special mention (top 10%) from the District Government of Upper Bavaria and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard Medical School since 2018.
Dr. Hildegard and Heinrich Fuchs Foundation
