- Travel Award for presentation at the 20th Annual Shock Society Meeting, Indian Wells, CA, Jan. 15-18 June 1997
- Finalist in the Young Investigator Award Competition at the 5th Annual Research Celebration at Rhode Island Hospital, November 11, 1997
- SIS-E Young Investigator Award at the Surgical Infection Society 22nd Annual Meeting, Madrid, Spain 2.-4. May 2002
- Travel Award for presentation at the 25th Annual Conference on Shock, Phoenix, Arizona, June 8-11, 2003, Shock Society
- Travel Award for presentation at the 29th Annual Shock Society Meeting, Broomfield, CO, June 3-6, 2006
- Award "Most often cited paper in SHOCK" (since 2000) 29th Annual Shock Society Meeting, Broomfield, CO, June 3-6, 2006
- Gerd-Hegemann Travel Grant 2007, Association of Bavarian Surgeons eV Travel Grant DTG 2009, Berlin 2009
- Astellas Research Award DTG 2009 (Pratschke, Angele)
- Travel Award for presentation at the 33rd Annual Shock Society Meeting, Portland USA June 12 - 15, 2010