David Freiholtz awarded the Senning Scholarship for 2024
David Freiholtz, PhD student in the Thoracic Surgery group at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, has been awarded the Senning Scholarship for 2024.
The scholarship was presented during the Scandinavian Thoracic Meeting in Gothenburg by the Swedish Association for Thoracic Surgery in memory of Åke Senning. The scholarship aims to support the most deserving thoracic surgery-focused research project of the year.
David Freiholtz received the scholarship, amounting to 100,000 SEK, for his project on prognostic biomarkers related to the development of thoracic aortic aneurysms after isolated aortic valve surgery, in patients with bicuspid and tricuspid aortic valves. The funds will help finance causality analyses. The research is conducted under the supervision of Docent Hanna Björck at the Department of Medicine, Solna.
Åke Senning (1915-2000), originally from Dalarna, was an associate professor and laboratory head in Thoracic Surgery at Karolinska Institutet, as well as a senior consultant at the Thoracic Clinic, Karolinska Hospital, until he was appointed professor in Zurich in 1961. Senning was the first in the world to implant a pacemaker intended for permanent use and the first to describe and use the long-used surgical method for transposition of the great arteries that bears his name.
Åke Senning's Memory - Swedish Association for Thoracic Surgery (sls.se)