Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds MD Fellowships 2024

Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds MD Fellowships is open to excellent medical students who can conduct an experimental research project in basic biomedical research.

Eligibility criteria for the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds MD Fellowships:

• Candidates applying for Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds MD Fellowships must study medicine in Germany, pause their studies, and change their working place for the duration of the MD fellowship.
• The research stay of the applicants must take place before the third part of the medical examination.
• Applicants who secured good or very good results in the first section of the medical examination and also during the following studies.
• Candidates must reach the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds at least 3 months before the planned change of location.
• Submission of applicants must be within 8 years after the University entrance qualification or high school-leaving exam.
• Clinical studies, botanical and prokaryotic investigations, and applied research are not supported.

Documents required for the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds MD Fellowships :

The applicants of Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds MD Fellowships must submit the following documents:

•  Personal details:
• Last (family) name
• First name(s)
• Title
• Gender
• Nationality
• Age, date, and place of birth
• Marital status, number of children
• Private address and telephone number(s)
• Current work address 
• E-mail address(es) for contact
• Scientific education:
• University entrance qualification or high school-leaving exam, e.g. “Abitur”, A-levels 
• University studies 
• If applicable: practical training, laboratory visits, holiday courses, clinical traineeships, etc.
• Intermediate and final examinations
• If applicable: MD thesis
• Honours and awards:
• Fellowships 
• Prizes 
• Non-scientific activities:
• Military service or community service 
• Maternity or paternity leaves 
• Vocational training 
• Employment 
• Others 
• Information about your research project:
• Title of a research project
• Future work address (university, institute, laboratory)
• Scientific supervisor(s) at the host institute
• Scientific supervisor at your home university in Germany (name and address)
• Commencement and anticipated end of a research project
• Proposed commencement of the MD fellowship
• The requested duration of the MD fellowship
• Project proposal:
• Title of your research project
• Summary of the research project
• A detailed presentation of the project: 
• Introduction, the current status of research, and formulation of the problem
• Groundwork (if you have already generated experimental data for your thesis project)
• Objectives, approaches, and methods of investigation (about 3-4 pages)
• Work schedule showing the anticipated duration of the entire project (at least ten months) and the individual steps
• Bibliography
• References:
• List up to five articles (except review articles and manuscripts submitted or in preparation) that were published in the past five years by:
• Scientific supervisor at the host institute
• Scientific supervisor in Germany
• Financial circumstances:
• Applications submitted to other funding institutions
• Present net income/month
• Information source:
• Explanation of how they first became aware of the MD fellowship program 
• Additional documents:
• Letter of motivation describing future goals and why they chose the experimental research project and host laboratory in their career so far
• Copy of certificates of the first section of the medical examination
• Achievements of subsequent study
• Copy of certificate of university entrance qualification or high school-leaving exam
• Letter of recommendation
• Acceptance from a scientific supervisor at the host institute
• Letter of recommendation from a supervisor in the home country of the applicants
• Official confirmation that they will interrupt their studies and clinical activities for the duration of the MD fellowship program

Selection criteria:

• Applicants' achievements.
• Scientific quality of proposed research project.
• Scientific standard of the laboratory in which the project is to be pursued.

Application: 

• Applications must be submitted to the BIF at least three months before the intended change of location and start in the host laboratory.
• Please send your application electronically as a single password-protected PDF file (maximum size 10 MB) with the password sent separately.