​Prof. John C. Burnett Jr, cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA, has received Rigshospitalet’s International KFJ Award 2015. The award was partly in recognition of his impressive research, publication profile and work within treatment of heart failure and peptide hormones produced by the heart itself. The award was presented at Rigshospitalet and marks the beginning of a new cross-Atlantic cooperation in the field of heart disease, endocrinology, stem cell therapy and diagnostics.​

"It is worth resuscitating octogenarians with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest" is the title and conclusion of research presented at ESC Congress on August 31, 2014 by Dr Helle Søholm from Department of Cardiology at Rigshospitalet.

Researchers at Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen have shown that a particular gene variant lowers the risk of arteriosclerosis by 41 per cent, making the variant an obvious target for future drugs for cardiovascular disease treatment.