Mustafa Abdo awarded DGP Research Prize 2025

At the 65th Annual Congress of the German Respiratory Society (DGP), Dr. Mustafa Abdo received the DGP Research Prize for Clinical Medicine for two articles on improving COPD therapy that he published as researcher of LungenClinic Grosshansdorf (DZL site ARCN). He shares the 10,000 Euros prize with Dr. Judith Brock, who also received the award.

The award was presented by DGP President Prof. Wolfram Windisch and Vice President Prof. Christian Taube during the opening of the DGP Congress in Leipzig. “It is with great pleasure and respect that we honor the outstanding achievements of the two award winners today. Their work is an example of excellence, innovation and tireless commitment to expanding the boundaries of our knowledge and improving patient care in the long term,” emphasized Windisch. “The winning papers are characterized by high scientific quality and are of considerable relevance to everyday clinical practice in pneumology.”

Research to improve COPD therapy

The first of the two award-winning papers by Mustafa Abdo (LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, DZL Site ARCN) deals with the differential analysis of heart problems in COPD patients that can influence mortality. A therapy specific for the two subtypes of heart disease could counteract this. In a second study, he and his research team at the LungenClinic investigated which COPD patients and asthmatics could particularly benefit from a therapy against IL-33. His work has been published in two high-ranking journals, the European Respiratory Journal and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Mustafa Abdo now works at the Thoraxklinik Heidelberg (DZL-site TLRC). Judith Brock, the second recipient of the DGP Research Prize for Clinical Medicine, also conducts her research there. She studied complications following the implantation of valves to reduce pulmonary hyperinflation in COPD.

Further DGP Prizes awarded

The DGP Research Prize for Experimental Medicine, also endowed with 10,000 Euros, was awarded to Dr. Lin Yang (Helmholtz Munich, DZL Site CPC-M) fordeveloping of advanced AI and imaging technologies to determine whether and how inhaled drugs reach the lungs. The DGP Science Award for Digital Medicine in Pneumology, endowed with 5,000 euros, went to Dr. Rainer Glöckl from the Schön-Klinik in Berchtesgaden. He developed and evaluated an app-based rehabilitation program for COPD patients.

 

Source: DGP-Website

 

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