Communicating scientific findings both internally and externally is an important concern of the researchers at VascHealth.
The Elisabeth Lutz Award – along with the Wilhelm Hartl Award and the Erwin Schrödinger Award – are the highest scientific honors of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Each award, endowed with EUR 15,000, is presented to researchers for outstanding achievements. VascHealth PI, Mahmoud Abdellatif, was honored with this prestigious award for 2025.
Sophie Schmid, VascHealth PhD student, was awarded the "Best Poster Prize" at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society for Molecular Biosciences and Biotechnology (ÖGMBT) in Graz.
The students presented their latest results and received valuable feedback during the third VascHealth retreat. General project progress and future plans were also discussed with VascHealth collaborators who participated in the Retreat.
Mahmoud Abdellatif, VascHealth researcher, was awarded the prestigious Oskar Lapp Prize - endowed with 12,000 euros - at the 89th German Annual Meeting of the German Society of Cardiology - Cardiovascular Research e.V. in Mannheim.
The second VascHealth Retreat took place in St. Gilgen, where students also had the opportunity to present their project results at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Austrian Atherosclerosis Society.
Our speaker Kathrin Eller has been promoted to a full professor.
Our PhD students presented their projects and had fruitful discussions with our board during the first VascHealth retreat.
