Marius Hoeper receives Oskar Medicine Award 2016

24.03.2017

During this year’s conference of the German Respiratory Society (DGP), Prof. Dr. Marius Hoeper, senior physician of the Department for Respiratory Medicine at Hannover Medical School and scientist of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), received the Oskar Medicine Award 2016 for his game-changing research in the area of Pulmonary Hypertension.

With this award the Oskar-Helene-Heim Foundation recognizes the scientific quality of Prof. Hoeper’s research over the past 25 years. It has been proven through a multitude of high-ranking publications and just recently through his senior authorship of the new European Guideline for the diagnosis and therapy of PH. The Oskar Medicine Award is endowed with 50.000 € and therefore one of the highest endowed medicine prizes in Germany.

Text: BREATH/AZ
Photos: DGP

from r. to l. Werner Ukas (Managingn Director of Oskar-Helene-Heim Foundation), Prof. Dr. med. Marius Hoeper (Hannover Medical School), Univ. Prof. Dr. Horst Olschewski (Medical University of Graz) (Photo: Mike Auerbach)

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