Festive reception of the LMU Faculty of Medicine
LMU Medicine would like to continue to counter this with facts and scientific excellence. The structures for this are in place. The Faculty of Medicine at LMU Munich has over 7,000 students in human medicine and dentistry - making it the largest in Germany. In 2024, LMU Medicine (clinical center and preclinical/clinical-theoretical subjects) raised 171 million euros in third-party funding. The number of publications (3,586), completed habilitations (60) and doctorates (611) in the past year confirm the leading position of LMU's Faculty of Medicine. The same applies to the many award winners for outstanding research and teaching.
The variety and number of awards presented at the annual reception are exemplary of the outstanding junior staff and the great innovative strength of LMU Medicine. Our thanks go to the donors of the various prizes - they promote the excellent further development of LMU Medicine in research and teaching through their generous support.
Particularly noteworthy are the Wolfgang Peisser Gold Medal for the outgoing LMU President Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Huber and his many years of support for the Faculty of Medicine, as well as a bust by sculptor and physician Dr. Josef Alexander Henselmann for the former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Professor Dr. Reinhard Hickel.
The musicians João Marinho (violin), Jakob Plag (clarinet) and Jakob Kuen (piano) provided the musical backdrop for the festive event in the prestigious rooms of the publishing house, which Dr. Marc Becker, grandson of the founder of the publishing house Rolf Becker, made available to the LMU faculty.
The following prizes were awarded
Rolf Becker Prize (50,000 euros in total) by Professor Dr. Julia Mayerle to:
Professor Dr. Martin Dreyling, Medical Clinic and Polyclinic III, for the publication:
Distinct Ibrutinib combined with immunochemotherapy with or without autologous stem-cell transplantation versus immunochemotherapy and autologous stem-cell transplantation in previously untreated patients with mantle cell lymphoma (TRIANGLE): a three-arm, randomized, open-label, phase 3 superiority trial of the European Mantle Cell Lymphoma Network, The Lancet (2024)
and
PD Dr. Hellen Ishikawa-Ankerhold, Department of Medicine and Polyclinic I and
Professor Dr. Dr. Florian Gaertner, Department of Medicine and Polyclinic I, for the publication: Plasmacytoid dendritic cells control homeostasis of megakaryopoiesis, Nature (2024)
MeCuM Teaching Awards by Professor Dr. Martin Fischer to:
Professor Dr. med. Ortrud Steinlein,
Institute of Human Genetics
Dr. med. Veronika Kanitz,
Institute of Pathology
Christiane Petermeise,
Institute of Laboratory Medicine
Dr. med. Matthias Thaler,
Medical Clinic and Polyclinic IV, Rheumatology
Christopher Helmbrecht,
Institute for Emergency Medicine and Medical Management (INM)
Professor Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Dietrich,
Walther-Straub-Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology
Harald Mückter Teaching Innovation Award by Professor Dr. Martin Fischer to private lecturer Dr. Ursula Berger, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology (IBE)
Dr. Hildegard and Heinrich Fuchs Prize (5,000 euros) by Professor Dr. Nikolaus Plesnila to:
Dr. med. Alexander Andreas Werner Leunig, formerly Medical Clinic and Polyclinic I (Mentor: Professor Dr. med. Steffen Massberg) for the dissertation: The Role of Platelets in the Spleen in Inflammation and Thrombosis
and
Dr. rer. biol. hum. Maximilian Arthur Schwarz, formerly Helmholtz Munich, Institute of Epidemiology (Mentor: Professor Dr. rer. biol. hum. Annette Peters) for the dissertation: Ambient Air Pollution and its Effects on Mortality and Hospital Admissions: A Comprehensive Analysis of Ultrafine Particles, Various Particle Sizes, and Temporal Patterns
Medical & Clinician Scientist Program (1,500 euros each) by Professor Dr. Marion Subklewe to:
LMU Medical Scientist of the Year, Hannah Schillok:
Institute of General Practice, for the publication: Effective Components of Collaborative Care for Depression in Primary Care: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis, JAMA Psychiatry (2025)
LMU Clinician Scientist of the Year,Dr. med. Kami Alexander Pekayvaz,
Medical Clinic and Polyclinic I, for the publication: Multiomic analyses uncover immunological signatures in acute and chronic coronary syndromes, Nat Med (2024)