Franz Köhler Prize

Experimental and clinical organ preservation in lung transplantation, together with Thorsten Wahlers (1993)

Leibniz Prize

German scientists of the German Research Foundation (1995)

Lower Saxony State Prize

Received in 2002

Honorary doctorate

State Medical and Pharmaceutical University N. Testemitanu in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova (2007)

Ring of Honour of the City of Garbsen

honoured in 2007

Pirogov gold medal

of the Russian Academy of Sciences, honoured in 2018