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HFA Winter Meeting Awards

Young Investigator Award and Guido Tarone Award winners



Find out more about why you should present your abstract at the HFA Winter Meeting by hearing from previous winners of the Young Investigator Award and Guido Tarone Award.

 

Guido Tarone Award winners

2023

Dr Sonja Gross (Hannover, DE) for "Engineered adeno-associated viral vectors with an improved in vivo targeting of cardiac fibroblasts

2020

Abdellatif Mahmoud (Graz, AT) for "Fine-tuning of cardiac IGF1 signalling improves cardiac health and extends lifespan".

Abdellatif Mahmoud - Guido Tarone

 

 

 

 

 

2019

Ralf Gilsbach (Freibrug, DE) for ''The identification and functional (epi)genetic modulation of chromatin interactions in cardiac myocytes''.

2018

Maarten van den Hoogenhof (Amsterdam, NL) for "RBM20 mutations induce an arrhythmogenic dilated cardiomyopathy related to disturbed calcium handling".

2017

Marco Mongillo (Padova, IT) for "Dynamics of neuro-effector coupling at cardiac sympathetic synapses".

2016

Ellen Dirkx (Trieste, IT) for "Targeting the miRNA-106b-25 cluster as a potential regenerative therapeutic approach for myocardial injury".

Young Investigator Award winners

2023

Louk Timmer (Utrecht , NL) for "SORBS2 regulates integrin-cytoskeleton interactions and extracellular matrix composition in heart failure".

2022

Alessio Alogna (Berlin, Germany) for "Inhalation of peptide-loaded nanoparticles improves cardiac function in pacing-induced heart failure".

2021

Ruping Chen (Wuerzburg, DE) for ''Mechanistic insights of the p.L13R mutation in the inner nuclear membrane
protein Lemd2 leading to cardiomyopathy associated with arrhythmias''.

2020

Victoria Mauz (Heidelberg, DE) for "Type II protein arginine methyltransferases are required for cardiac integrity and metabolic adaptation to stress".

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2019

Hashim Ali (Trieste, IT) for "The ubiquitin ligase TRIM35 is a novel restriction factor for cardiomyocyte proliferation".

2018  

  • Daniel Brayson (London, UK) for "Prelamin A toxicity drives 'inflammaging' of the myocardium: a mechanism for multiple cardiomyopathies".
  • Edoardo Bertero (Wurzburg, DE) for "Down regulation of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter hinders cardiac energy supply-and-demand matching in Barth syndrome".

2017

Mahmoud Abdellatif (Graz, AT) for "The natural autophagy-inducer spermidine protects the aging heart and promotes longevity in mice".

Runners up

2023
  • Nienke Marloes Stege (Groningen, NL) for "DWORF diminishes clustering of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in a PLN-R14del cardiomyopathy mouse model and extends life span".

  • Antonio Mura (Trieste, IT) for "Fam3c, a novel cardioprotective factor against myocardial infarction".
2022
  • Elisabetta Gamen (Oxford, UK) for "Epicardical re-activation of HF signalling pathway improved heart regeneration in a neonatal mouse model of myocardial infraction".
  • Ruping Chen (Wuerzburg, DE) for "Molecular mechanisms of LEMD2 p.L13R mutation related arrhythmic cardiomyopathy".
2021
  • Tea Kocijan (Trieste, IT) for "In vivo proteomics identifies lumican as an inhibitor of angiogenesis in the adult mammalian heart".
  • Mahmoud Abdellatif (Paris, FR) for "Nicotinamide treats cardiac hallmarks of experimental heart failure with preserved ejection fraction".
2020
  •  Karoline Bjarnesdatter Rypdal (Oslo, NO) for "The secret glycoprotein ADAMTSL2 is up-regulated in heart failure and directs anti-fibrotic signalling".

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  •  Tim Rubben Eijgenraam (Groningen, NL) for "A novel mouse model of phospholamban p.Arg14del cardiomyopathy develops heart failure with protein aggregation and is unresponsive to common heart failure drugs".

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2019
  •  Arwa Kohela (Utrecht, NL) for "Epicardial contribution to arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy"
  • Justine Dontaine (Louvain, BE) for "New paradigm for cardiac hypertrophy prevention"
2018
  • Stephen Gray (London, UK) for "The mitochondrial unfolded protein response protects the heart during chronic pressure overload"
2017
  • Ellen Dirkx (Trieste, IT) for "High throughput small molecules screen identifies the neuroactive alkaloid harmine as an inducer of cardiomyocyte proliferation".
  • Maxance Ribeiro (Paris, FR) for "New role of EPAC in the Anthracyclines-induced cardiotoxicity".

 

Award winners from the 2018 HFA Winter Meeting with Prof. Rudolf de Boer (meeting coordinator) and Prof. Christoph Maack (chair of poster session jury). 

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From left to right: Prof. Rudolf de Boer (NL), Maarten van den Hoogenhof (NL), Stephen Gray (UK), Daniel Brayson (UK), Edoardo Bertero (IT), Christoph Maack (DE)