Award year: 2006
Category: Other Award
Type: Sofja-Kovaleskaja-Preis
Awarding organization: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
In recognition of providing evidence that it is possible to induce proliferation of adult mammalian cardiomyocytes. Aim of the funding is to test whether the induction of adult mammalian cardiomyocyte proliferation enables the regeneration of the heart.