{"id":20063,"date":"2025-10-14T10:30:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/?p=20063"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:33:14","slug":"gerhard-kronke-receives-wolfgang-schulze-foundation-scientific-award-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/en\/neuigkeiten\/gerhard-kronke-receives-wolfgang-schulze-foundation-scientific-award-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerhard Kr\u00f6nke receives Wolfgang Schulze Foundation Scientific Award 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide toc-item\" id=\"honouring-outstanding-research-achievements-for-deciphering-the-mechanism-of-action-of-glucocorticoids\"><strong><strong>Honouring outstanding research achievements for deciphering the mechanism of action of glucocorticoids<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide has-text-align-wide wp-block-paragraph\">Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kr\u00f6nke, Director of the Medical Clinic for Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at Charit\u00e9 \u2013 Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin and head of the research group Clinical Rheumatology at the German Rheumatology Research Center Berlin (DRFZ), a Leibniz-institute, was awarded the Wolfgang Schulze Foundation Science Award on 13 October 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide has-text-align-wide wp-block-paragraph\">The award ceremony was held at Sch\u00f6neberg Town Hall to coincide with World Arthritis Day. Prof. Dr. Eicke Latz, Scientific Director of the DRFZ, gave the laudatory speech, praising the outstanding research work of Gerhard Kr\u00f6nke and his team. Their research unraveled a new mechanism of action of glucocorticoids\u2014an important contribution to the understanding and further development of rheumatological therapies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n  <section     class=\"section grid-heads alignwide\">\n    <div class=\"container container--center\">\n      \n              <div class=\"grid-heads__items grid grid--4\">\n          \n<article\n  id=\"post-3781\" class=\"teaser-head launimation slideBottom  post-3781 head type-head status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry department-pa-4-translational-rheumatology liaison-charite-rheumatology-and-clinical-immunology programme-area-tax-programme-area-4 working-group-function-group-leader\">\n  <div class=\"teaser-head__image\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, 520px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kroenke-Gerhard_Foto_J-Hirscher-150x100.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kroenke-Gerhard_Foto_J-Hirscher-1024x682.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kroenke-Gerhard_Foto_J-Hirscher-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kroenke-Gerhard_Foto_J-Hirscher-1600x1066.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kroenke-Gerhard_Foto_J-Hirscher-1366x910.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kroenke-Gerhard_Foto_J-Hirscher-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kroenke-Gerhard_Foto_J-Hirscher-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kroenke-Gerhard_Foto_J-Hirscher-550x367.jpg 550w\" class=\"image image--landscape\" alt=\"\"  width=\"1024\"  height=\"682\">      <\/div>\n  <div class=\"teaser-head__header\">\n    <!--    -->    <!--      -->    <!--    -->    <h2 class=\"h6 teaser-head__title launimation slideBottom\">Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kr\u00f6nke<\/h2>\n          <div class=\"teaser-head__role\">\n                          <p class=\"text-label programme_area_function programme_area department\">\n            Programme Area 4, PA 4 \u2013 Translational Rheumatology          <\/p>\n                                  <p\n            class=\"text-label liaison\">Liaison working group with Charit\u00e9 &#8211; Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology<\/p>\n              <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"teaser-head__contact\">\n              <p class=\"text-label\"><a href=\"mailto:gerhard.kroenke@charite.de\"\">gerhard.kroenke@charite.de<\/a><\/p>\n          <\/div>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/en\/koepfe\/gerhard-kronke\/\"\n    aria-describedby=\"post-3781\"\n    title=\"Gehe zum Beitrag\" rel=\"bookmark\"\n    class=\"teaser-head__link button button--small button--arrow button--arrow-link\"><span\n      class=\"visually-hidden\">Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kr\u00f6nke<\/span><\/a>\n<\/article>        <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n\n\n  <section id=\"world-rheumatism-day\"    class=\"section featured-post alignwide bg bg--full-width bg--aqua-100\">\n    <div class=\"container container--center\">\n      <div class=\"featured-post__container\">\n        <div class=\"featured-post__content launimation slideBottom\">\n                      <div class=\"featured-post__info\">\n                              \n<ul class=\"tag-pills\" role=\"none\">\n      <li role=\"none\">\n      <span class=\"tag-pill\">\n        <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Kategorie: <\/span>\n        Public event      <\/span>\n    <\/li>\n  <\/ul>                                                          <time class=\"featured-post__date date\" datetime=\"2025-10-13 08:08:45\">13.10.2025<\/time>                          <\/div>\n                                <h2 class=\"featured-post__title h2\" lang=\"en          \">World Rheumatism Day<\/h2>\n          \n                      <p class=\"featured-post__text\">Inflammatory rheumatism affects around 1.8 million people in Germany. World Rheumatism Day on October 12 draws attention to the effects of rheumatic diseases: many patients\u2026<\/p>\n          \n          <a class=\"featured-post__button button button--arrow button--arrow-link\"\n            href=\"https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/en\/veranstaltungen\/world-rheumatism-day\/\"><span\n              class=\"visually-hidden\">World Rheumatism Day<\/span><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n                  <div class=\"featured-post__media launimation slideRight\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, 624px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/25_10_13_WeltRheumaTag__Beitragsbild-1024x576.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/25_10_13_WeltRheumaTag__Beitragsbild.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/25_10_13_WeltRheumaTag__Beitragsbild.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/25_10_13_WeltRheumaTag__Beitragsbild.jpg 1366w, 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href=\"https:\/\/rheuma-liga-berlin.de\/wir-ueber-uns\/stiftung-wolfgang-schulze\">Wolfgang Schulze Stiftung<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n  <section id=\"new-mechanism-of-cortisone-action-deciphered\"    class=\"section featured-post alignwide bg bg--full-width bg--aqua-100\">\n    <div class=\"container container--center\">\n      <div class=\"featured-post__container\">\n        <div class=\"featured-post__content launimation slideBottom\">\n                      <div class=\"featured-post__info\">\n                              \n<ul class=\"tag-pills\" role=\"none\">\n      <li role=\"none\">\n      <span class=\"tag-pill\">\n        <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Kategorie: <\/span>\n        Publications      <\/span>\n    <\/li>\n  <\/ul>                                                          <time class=\"featured-post__date date\" datetime=\"2024-04-15 14:29:00\">15.04.2024<\/time>                          <\/div>\n                                <h2 class=\"featured-post__title h2\" lang=\"en          \">New mechanism of cortisone action deciphered<\/h2>\n          \n                      <p class=\"featured-post__text\">Cortisone has been used for decades to treat chronic inflammation, for example is patients with rheumatic diseases; however, the underlying molecular mechanism of action was\u2026<\/p>\n          \n          <a class=\"featured-post__button button button--arrow button--arrow-link\"\n            href=\"https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/en\/neuigkeiten\/neuen-wirkmechanismus-von-kortison-entschluesselt\/\"><span\n              class=\"visually-hidden\">New mechanism of cortisone action deciphered<\/span><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n                  <div class=\"featured-post__media launimation slideRight\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, 624px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drfz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2024_04_15_Wirkmechanismus_Kortison_AdobeStock_2018384.jpg\" 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