Networks and funding
Research and scientific training at the BMC are supported by national, European and international programs.
Prestigious Research Grants
BMC scientists are very successful in acquiring third-party funding. A selection of particularly renowned research grants is listed below.
Emmy Noether-Nachwuchsgruppenleitungen
DFG-funded program for junior research group leaders
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Heisenberg-Professuren
DFG-funded professorships in preparation for an academic leadership role
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the most important research funding prize in Germany
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Outstanding prizes
LMU researchers in all subject areas are regularly honoured with high-ranking prizes.
Read moreResearch networks
BMC scientists have local, national and international networks and are members of numerous research associations and clusters. They play a leading role in the SyNergy Cluster of Excellence, one Collaborative Research Center (CRCs) of the German Research Foundation (DFG), three CRC/Transregios (CRC/TRRs) of the DFG, the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and other research networks. For reasons of clarity, only research networks that have a strong BMC involvement or are directly headed by BMC scientists are listed below.
Yellow4FLAVI - Horizon Europe Research Consortium
Deconstructing the protective immunity of yellow fever virus 17D to inform flavivirus vaccine design
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Graduate Schools
The Faculty of Medicine at LMU Munich offers doctoral studies in the areas of human medicine, dental medicine, human biology and the life sciences. All of the faculty's doctoral programs are housed under the umbrella of the Munich Medical Research School (MMRS).
The divisions and institutes at the BMC offer doctorates in a number of structured graduate programs. The programs in the life sciences are listed below.
If you are interested, please get in touch with the contact persons of the graduate programs, the Munich Medical Research School or the BMC research groups directly.
Further information on doctoral studies at LMU can be found on the website of the LMU Graduate Center and on the LMU online portal "Academic Careers".
