20 March 2026

Ahmad Aljohmani honoured with the Hans and Ruth Giessen Foundation Award

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Dr. rer. nat. Ahmad Aljohmani

Dr Ahmad Aljohmani is one of two award winners who were recognized by the Hans and Ruth Giessen Foundation on 19 March in a ceremony in the Saarland University 'Aula' assembly hall. Dr Aljohmani is an early career medical researcher and leads a research group at Saarland University Hospital that investigates potential treatments that can lessen harmful inflammation in the body without compromising its antibacterial defences.

The following text has been machine translated from the German with no human editing.

Ahmad Aljohmani is investigating how the body reacts to severe bacterial infections and how the resulting harmful inflammatory processes can be specifically inhibited. With this award, he is now establishing a new research focus in the field of head and neck tumours. The body’s own signalling pathways and enzymes also play an important role in tumours, particularly in their growth and spread.

Dr. rer. nat. Ahmad Aljohmani was already awarded the Eduard Martin Prize 2025 last October. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Professor Daniela Yildiz, is entitled: “Cell-specific regulation and function of ADAM10 and ADAM17 during Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection”.

The Hans and Ruth Giessen Foundation was established in 2017 to support particularly gifted young people in the fields of natural sciences, medicine and classical music. An annual grant of 50,000 euros is available.
Further information at: www.hr-giessen-stiftung.de  

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Dr. rer. nat. Ahmad Aljohmani