Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowships

The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds awards PhD fellowships to outstanding junior scientists who wish to pursue an ambitious PhD project of approximately 3 years in basic biomedical research in an internationally leading laboratory.

a. Goal: To promote basic research in biomedicine by providing the best young, up-and-coming scientists with comprehensive support during their PhD phase.

b. Duration: 2 years that can be extended for up to another 12 months.

c. Requirements:

- Junior scientist (maximum 27 years old)

- European citizens working in Europe or overseas and to non-European citizens pursuing their PhD project in Europe.

- At the respective deadline, applicant’s first university degree qualifying for a profession (e.g. BSc, Diploma, Final State Examination) must not have been achieved more than 4 years ago.

- PhD project should be experimental, in the field of basic biomedical research and aimed at elucidating basic biological phenomena of human life and acquiring new scientific knowledge. For examples of projects that we do and do not support please see the PDF "What we do and do not fund".

- Natural scientists should have been awarded their ultimate university degree (diploma, MSc, BSc, or equivalent). Students who have not yet finished their MSc studies, i.e. who cannot provide their MSc certificate at the deadline, can only apply when they are able to hand in their certificate within 4 months after the deadline.

- At the deadline, the applicant should not have been working on his/her project for more than 6 months.

- Only one candidate per laboratory can receive a fellowship. This is why we would highly recommend that candidates from the same laboratory apply at different deadlines.

d. Conditions: The fellowship comprises a competitive monthly stipend that is initially granted for 2 years and that can be extended for up to another 12 months. Participation in international scientific conferences is also supported. In addition, fellowship holders are offered personal support, seminars to discuss their projects, communication training and alumni meetings, and thus can become part of a worldwide network.

The basic monthly stipend amounts to 1,550 euros. In the United Kingdom, a further 700 euros, in the USA and Denmark, a further 800 euros, in Australia, Israel, and Canada, a further 500 euros, in Switzerland, a further 1,700 euros, and in Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden, a further 200 euros are added as a country-related premium. Depending on the cost of living, all other countries are grouped into one of these categories. In most countries, fellows are paid an additional flat rate of 150 euros per month to cover premiums for personal insurance and minor project-related costs (books, travel expenses, etc.). A spouse allowance, child allowance and/or childcare allowance may be added. The stipend is transferred to the fellow's personal bank account by the middle of each month.

e. Application:

The application for a PhD fellowship of the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds consists of two parts:

       -the online application

       - two paper copies of the application including one CD to be sent by regular mail to: Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, Schusterstr. 46-48, 55116 Mainz, Germany

You can find more information about the documents needed here

e. Deadlines:

                Official deadline: October 1st, 2017. Please, consider that you could submit proposals every year 1 February, 1 June, 1 October.

       VHIR internal deadline: Please send an email to ajuts@vhir.org showing your interest before 26th September 2017.

       Pre-selection takes place about 4 weeks after the respective deadline, and the final selection approximately 5 months after the respective        deadline.

f. Més informació: HERE