News | 25/07/2025

Festive reception of the LMU Faculty of Medicine

The annual reception of the Faculty of Medicine 2025 took place on Saturday, July 19, in the Irenensaal of Wort & Bild Verlag in Baierbrunn
Professor Dr. Thomas Gudermann, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, welcomed around 140 guests with an impressive presentation on the successes of the past year. In addition to LMU Medicine's participation in three clusters of excellence, the numerous research alliances and new initiatives in teaching and international cooperation, he particularly highlighted the strategy and branding process. Professor Gudermann also referred to the great importance of academic freedom and the problematic development that individualized truths are sometimes equated worldwide with universally valid scientific insights and findings.
Dean Prof. Dr. Thomas Gudermann welcomed around 140 guests with an impressive presentation on the successes of the past year

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.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Huber, Prof. Dr. Thomas Gudermann (laudator)

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.

vlnr.: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Hickel, Prof. Dr. Thomas Gudermann, Dr. Josef Alexander Henselmann
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Hickel, Prof. Dr. Thomas Gudermann, Dr. Josef Alexander Henselmann

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

Prof. Dr. Martin Dreyling, Prof. Dr. Julia Mayerle
Prof. Dr. Martin Dreyling, Prof. Dr. Julia Mayerle (laudator)

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)

vlnr.: Professor Dr. Dr. Florian Gaertner, PD Dr. Hellen Ishikawa-Ankerhold, Prof. Dr. Julia Mayerle
Professor Dr. Dr. Florian Gaertner, PD Dr. Hellen Ishikawa-Ankerhold, Prof. Dr. Julia Mayerle (laudator)

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:

Verleihung der MeCuM Lehrauszeichnungen 2025
Prof. Dr. Alexander Dietrich, Christopher Helmbrecht, Prof. Dr. Ortrud Steinlein, Christiane Petermeise, Prof. Dr. Martin Fischer (laudator)

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

PD Dr. Ursula Berger
PD Dr. Ursula Berger

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. Astrid Reinke (Vorsitzende Dr. Hildegard und Heinrich Fuchs Stiftung, Dr. Maximilian Arthur Schwarz, Dr. Alexander Andreas Werner Leunig, Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Plesnila (Laudator)
Dr. Astrid Reinke (Chairwoman of the Dr. Hildegard and Heinrich Fuchs Foundation, Dr. Maximilian Arthur Schwarz, Dr. Alexander Andreas Werner Leunig, Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Plesnila (laudator)

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

Prof. Nikolaus Haas mit dem Sonderpreis der Munich Medical Research School ausgezeichnet
Dr. Astrid Reinke (Chairwoman of the Dr. Hildegard and Heinrich Fuchs Foundation), Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Haas, Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Plesnila (laudator)

Special prize of the Munich Medical Research School (1,000 euros) for outstanding achievements in the supervision of doctoral students by Professor Dr. Nikolaus Plesnila toProfessor Dr. Nikolaus HaasHead of the Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine

Medical & Clinician Scientist Program (1,500 euros each) by Professor Dr. Marion Subklewe to:

Hannah Schillok (LMU Medical Scientist of the Year 2025), Prof. Dr. Marion Subklewe

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)

Dr. Kami Alexander Pekayvaz, Prof. Dr. Marion Subklewe

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)

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