Scientific Awards

2024Gold Medal of the Serbian Society of Cardiology, Belgrad, Serbia
2023 Robert L. Frye Award, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation
2019Award for the Best Textbook in Cardiology by the British Medical Association
2019Andreas-Güntzig-Award, Swiss Society of Cardiology
2018C3 Interventional Academy Award ,Complex Cardiovascular Catheter Therapeutics
2018Werner Forssmann Award, Charité Berlin, FRG
2018Medal of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland
2018Gold Medal of the Serbian Heart Failure Society, Belgrad, Serbia
2017Paul-Morawitz-Award of the German Society of Cardiology, Mannheim, Germany
2012Mayo Distinguished Alumni Award. Mayo Clinic, Rocherster, Mn., USA
2008The Khwarizmi International Award, Islamic Republic of Iran
2007ESC Andreas Grüntzig Lecture on Interventional Cardiology and Silver Medal, Annual
Meeting of the European Society of Cardiology, Vienna, Austria.
2001Björn Folkow Award of the European Society of Hypertension, Milan, Italy
2001Theodor-Nägeli Award for Thrombosis Research (together with M. Eto)
1994W.H. Hauss-Preis (together with Barry S. Oemar), German Society for Atherosclerosis        
Research, Tübingen, Germany
1993Attilio Reale Prize for Basic Cardiology, Rome, Italy
1993Mack Forster Award, European Society for Clinical Investigation
1991Volhard-Prize, German Society of Nephrology, Heidelberg, Germany
1990Young Investigator Award (1st Prize), 11th World Congress of Cardiology, Manila, Philippines
1990Scientific Prize, Swiss Society of Internal Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland