Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG): Radiomics – Image-guided personalized prediction of residual risk and prognosis of cardio/cerebrovascular disease.
(2023 – 2025)
German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK): B23_Hemodynamics – Analysis of hemodynamics using cardiovascular magnetic resonance at ultrahigh field strengths
(2023 – 2025)
German Heart Research Foundation (DSHF): MR-CorVasc – Interaction of intracardiac and extracardiac hemodynamics with myocardial and vascular remodeling by cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in aortic valve stenosis: a prospective observational study.
(2022 – 2023)
German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK): Noninvasive hemodynamic and myocardial tissue differentiation applying Cardiovascular MR
(2022-2025)
EU-Project Grant: SRT-h08 Quiero – Quantitative MR-based imaging of physical biomarkers (2020-2022)
German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK): Effect of Metformin in insulin resistant patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (Metris)
(2019-2022)
DFG: Corona Foundation junior Research group: Heart and brain Interaction in stroke working group and laboratory; Integrative Cardio-Neurology
(2019- ongoing)
German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK): Noninvasive hemodynamic and myocardial tissue differentiation applying Cardiovascular MR
(2019-2020)
BIH – Berlin Longterm Observation of Vascular Events – BeLOVE: A prospective observational study with Acute Stroke, Acute Coronary Syndrome or Diabetes Mellitus
(2017 – ongoing)
DFG Research Training Group BIOQIC (Partipating Researcher) BIOphysical Quantitative Imaging Towards Clinical Diagnosis
(2016)
Bayer Pharmaceuticals AG: Involvement in Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) using cardiovascular MRI
(2016-2019)
German Foundation for Heart Research: Analysis of morphological and functional changes in the myocardium in Septic Cardiomyopathy using cardiac MRI
(2016-2018)
Helios Research Center: Prevalence and characterization of pleural and pericardial fluid accumulations visualized by cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR)
(2016)
Helios Research Center: Investigation of the cardiotoxicity of Anthracyclines during initial and re-exposure using cardiac MRI
(2015)
DZHK Pillar B Cardiac T1 mapping and evaluation of myocardial extracellular volume in patients with diabetes, prediabetes and normal controls
(2014)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research – German Aerospace Center: Industrial research and testing of the basic feasibility of methods for high-resolution sodium MRI (NAMRIS)
(2013-2016)
German Foundation for Heart Research: The influence of Aortic Stenosis on hemodynamics in the Ascending Aorta using cardiac MRI (2013-2014)
(2013-2014)
National Institutes of Health – The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLB):
HCMR – Novel Markers of Prognosis in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
(2012-2024)
Else-Kröner Fresenius Foundation: Detection of early myocardial damage through morphological and functional tissue characterization using cardiac high-field MRI
(2010-2013)
Helios research Center: Investigation of the importance of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in clinical cardiology and analysis of cost-effectiveness compared to alternative imaging methods.
(2009)
Else-Kröner Fresenius Foundation: High-field cardiac MRI: Multiparametric phenotyping in an ischemia/reperfusion model in mice
(2008-2009)
Helios Research Center: Evaluation of the suitability of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for determining the opening area of bioprostheses in the aortic position
(2008)
German Heart Foundation: Magnetic resonance imaging of carotid plaques
(2006-2008)
Application partner in the acquisition of €2.5 million for a 7Tesla MRI by the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch via an internationally reviewed competitive procedure as part of the Helmholtz investment prioritization
(2006)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Berlin Study of Metabolomics in Adiposity and its Role for Successful Therapy
(2004-2010)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research: InnoRegio Berlin-Buch Health Region Educational Association for Clinical Research and Biomedicine: Development of needs-based training courses for laboratory workers to become assistants in clinical research and development, assistants in molecular medicine, assistants in bioinformatics and further training for doctors
(2004-2006)
Industry Sponsored Projects
Bayer Schering Pharma, Berlin, Germany „Analysis of Myocardial Viability using contrast-enhancing CMR” (2010-2012)
Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, BU MR Germany „CMR in Acute Coronary Syndrome” (2007)
Circle cviCMR-Postprocessing, data-base-structure and internet-based Networking, Image-processing (since 2007)
Bracco Imaging, Italy “Optimization of myocardial fibrosis imaging in Left Ventricular Hyptertrophy using Multi-Hance” (2006)
Medis, Netherlands; CMR-Postprocessing
(since 2005)