Clinician Scientist Programmes of the DFG
The DFG’s Clinician Scientist Programmes provide a structured framework for physicians to combine research and residency training.
The DFG currently funds 23 Clinician Scientist Programmes at medical faculties throughout Germany with a duration of up to five years. The aim is to offer a structured scientific training and qualification programme for researching physicians.
Within the Clinician Scientist Programmes, the DFG currently funds around 400 temporary substitute positions, which enable the participating physicians to pursue their own high-quality research activities parallel to their residency training. Additional funding is provided by the DFG for the coordination of the programmes, the required mentoring and the accompanying scientific curriculum, so that the participants can benefit from comprehensive support and training opportunities.
Subsequent to the DFG funding period, the Clinical Scientist Programmes are to be sustainably anchored at the hosting medical faculty. The programmes are closely monitored by the DFG in order to gain key insights on Clinician Scientist funding.
Clinician Scientist Programmes at Medical Faculties
Clinician Scientist Programmes at Medical Faculties
MFT survey, status 2022
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MFT survey, status 2022
© DFG
Overview of funded Clinician Scientist Programmes
With the first call for proposal for Clinician Scientist Programmes 13 projects were accepted for funding in 2018 following an international review.
- Clinician Scientist Program in Evolutionary Medicin
Professor Dr. John F. Baines, Faculty of Medicine of the Kiel University)
Project in Gepri - Cell dynamics in disease and therap
(Professor Dr. Matthias Dobbelstein, University Medicine Center Göttingen)
Project in Gepri - Interfaces and Interventions in Complex Chronic Condition
(Professor Dr. Matthias Ebert, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University)
Project in Gepri - Promoting Excellence in Medicine: the University Medicine Essen Clinician Scientist Academy (UMEA
(Professor Dr. Dr. Dagmar Führer-Sakel, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen)
Project in Gepri - Justus Liebig University Giessen Clinician Scientist Program in Biomedical Researc
(Professor Dr. Andreas Günther, Faculty of Medicine, University Giessen)
Project in Gepri - Understanding of InterOrgan Networks in Cardiac and Vascular Diseases (UNION-CVD
(Professor Dr. Stefanie Hahner, Faculty of Medicine, University of Würzburg)
Project in Gepri - Clinician Scientist PRogram In Vascular MEdicine (PRIME
(Professor Dr. Steffen Massberg, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich)
Project in Gepri - Young Academy – PRACTIS (Program of Hannover Medical School for Clinician Scientists
(Professor Dr. Anette Melk, Hannover Medical School)
Project in Gepri - Clinician Scientist School Lübeck: Connecting Brain, Metabolism, and Inflammation (BMI
(Professor Dr. Christian David Sadik, University of Lübeck)
Project in Gepri - Charité Digital Clinician Scientists for Future Data-Driven Medicin
(Professor Dr. Igor Maximilian Sauer, Charité – University Medicine Berlin)
Project in Gepri - Cologne Clinician Scientist Progra
(Professor Dr. Ruth Esther Stebut-Borschitz, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne)
Project in Gepri - IMM-PACT: Targeting common principles of immune mediated disease: from basic science to novel therapie
(Professor Dr. Robert Thimme, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg)
Project in Gepri - Organ Dysfunction in Old Age: Perspectives for Young Clinician Scientists (OrganAge
(Professor Dr. Otto Wilhelm Witte, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jena)
Project in Gepri
As a result of the second call for proposal, a further ten programmes were approved in summer 2022.
- Regulation of Inflammation in Neurological, Autoimmune and Infectious Diseases (RINAI
(Professor Dr. Nina Babel, Marienhospital Herne, University Hospital of the University of Bochum)
Project in Gepri - Meeting the Challenges of Chronic Age-Related Diseases in Rural Area
(Professor Dr. Agnes Flöel, Greifswald University Medicine)
Project in Gepri - MD-LEICS – Modern Diseases – Leipzig Clinician Scientist Programm
(Professor Dr. Antje Körner, Leipzig University Hospital)
Project in Gepri - Medical Innovation through Interdisciplinarity Clinician Scientist (MINT-CS) Programm
(Professor Dr. Claudia Lengerke, University Hospital Tübingen)
Project in Gepri - iDfellows: Hamburg Clinician Scientist Programme in Infectious Disease
(Professor Dr. Ansgar W. Lohse, Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf)
Project in Gepri - Future for Clinician Scientists in Precision Metabolic Medicin
(Professor Dr. Tom Lüdde, University Hospital of Düsseldorf)
Project in Gepri - Neuro-aCSis – Bonn Neuroscience Clinician Scientist Progra
(Professor Dr. Gabor Petzold, University Hospital Bonn)
Project in Gepri - Networks of tissue responses in inflammatory diseases and cancer (NOTICE
(PD Dr. Andreas Ramming, University Hospital Erlangen)
Project in Gepri - Clinician Scientist CareerS Münste
(Professor Dr. Michael Schäfers, Münster University Hospital)
Project in Gepri - Inflammation-Driven Diseases Program (INDEEP): inflammatory response as driver for human diseases and target for therap
(Professor Dr. Evelyn Ullrich, University Clinic Frankfurt)
Project in Gepri
Basis of Clinician Scientist funding and further financing options within the programmes
Other actors and sponsors of Clinician Scientist Programmes
- Clinician Scientist-Programme | Medizinischer Fakultätenta
- Else Kröner Research Schools for Physician
- Perspektive und Planungssicherheit für forschende Fachärztinnen und Fachärzte (“Perspectives and planning security for researching medical specialists”
- Mildred-Scheel-Nachwuchszentre
Further Information
Contact
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