Former IPEK student Julian Leberzammer was awarded the LMU medical faculty doctoral prize from the Dr. Hildegard and Heinrich Fuchs Foundation for his outstanding doctoral thesis on ‘The role of platelet-derived CXCL12 in arterial thrombosis and atherosclerosis’ The winners were selected among the best "summa cum laude" doctoral theses of the year by the Medical Faculty of the LMU. The prize is endowed with € 5,000. 

As part of his medical doctorate at the IPEK in the group of Dr. von Hundelshausen, Dr. Leberzammer found that the chemokine CXCL12 drives arterial thrombosis and could be a promising therapeutic target. The results of these studies have been published in the journal Blood.

Dr Leberzammer graduated with a medical degree in 2019 and is now working as a Clinician Scientist within the Department of Cardiology and the Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration at Goethe University Frankfurt.