Dr. med. Daniel Reichart has received an Emmy Noether grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) worth over 2 million euros for his project on the topic:

'The ageing heart: identification of new biomarkers of ageing and evaluation of new treatment approaches'.

The Emmy Noether Program is aimed at highly qualified postdocs and temporary junior professors at an early stage of their scientific career. It enables them to qualify for a university professorship by independently leading an Emmy Noether group over a period of six years.

In his project "The ageing heart: identification of new biomarkers of ageing and evaluation of new treatment approaches", Daniel Reichart wants to investigate the ageing process of the heart and the gradual loss of cellular resistance at a molecular level. "Using single-cell sequencing, we can measure the RNA and epigenetic patterns of each individual heart cell; this will enable us to characterize the heterogeneity of cell types in the ageing heart with a high degree of sensitivity," says Reichart. These insights should deepen our understanding of the increased vulnerability to heart disease in old age, help to find new treatment options and answer the question of why people age at different rates.