Wilhelm Feuerlein Research Awards

PD Dr. Anne Koopmann and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sommer, Clinic for Addictive Behaviour and Addiction Medicine, have each received the Wilhelm Feuerlein Research Award of the Oberberg Foundation Matthias Gottschaldt and the German Addiction Foundation. Koopmann’s work entitled “Influence of appetite-regulating peptides on craving and relapse risk in substance use disorders” was awarded in the field of clinical research. Sommer received the prize for his work “Chronic alcohol consumption alters extracellular space geometry and transmitter diffusion in the brain” in the area of basic research / population epidemiology. The prizes are endowed with 4,000 euros each.

ECNP Excellence Award

Medical doctoral student Luzie Eichentopf, Department of Molecular Neuroimaging, has received the ECNP Excellence Award for her abstract submitted at the Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP). The abstract is entitled: “Escitalopram: Drug monitoring for dose titration? Systematic literature review on the therapeutic and the dose-related reference range”. The award is aimed at young scientists and is intended to encourage them to present a poster during the annual ECNP congress. In addition to 100 euros, Eichentopf receives the opportunity to present the poster and a travel grant of 400 euros. The senior author of the paper is Xenia Marlene Hart. 

Hamburg Personality Disorders Prize 2021

Dr. Robin Bekrater-Bodmann, Clinic of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, has received the Hamburg Award Personality Disorders 2021, which is endowed with 10,000 euros. In his award-winning work, Bekrater-Bodmann, who has headed the Body Plasticity and Memory Processes research group at the CIMH since 2016, empirically and differentially examines body experiences and dissociation in current and remitted borderline personality disorder. A clinically highly relevant result is that in patients in whom the disorder has remitted, the problems in experiencing one’s own body continue to persist, which supports the new models of personality function and structure. The prize was awarded virtually this year. Every year, the Society for Research and Therapy of Personality Disorders (GePs) and the Asklepios Kliniken Hamburg offer awards for clinical research in the field of personality disorders.

DGPPN poster awards

At this year’s congress of the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN), Malte Zopfs, Xenia Marlene Hart, Dr. Gerit Breitfelder and Laura Kärtner were awarded DGPPN poster prizes. The prize is endowed with 500 euros each. The prizes are awarded to the best posters presented at the DGPPN Congress.

• Malte Zopfs: „Feasibility and validity of EFP-neurofeedback in an adolescent sample of BPD patients“
• Xenia Marlene Hart: „Wie valide ist der therapeutische Referenzbereich von Aripiprazol und welche Rolle spielt der aktive Metabolit Dehydroaripiprazol? Eine systematische Übersichtsarbeit“
• Dr. Gerrit Breitfelder: „Entwicklung des Stufensettings „Selbstgefährdung bei Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung“ auf allgemein-psychiatrischen Stationen“
• Laura Kärtner: „Low Dose Psilocybin in Depression: More than „Just Placebo“? A research question as part of the German EPIsoDE trial“