Fostering young researchers worldwide

In 1983, the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds was established as a public foundation. An independent, non-profit institution, its purpose is the exclusive and direct promotion of basic research in biomedicine. The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds supports the most talented young researchers worldwide whose PhD or MD projects are aimed at experimentally elucidating basic phenomena of human life.

Only the best applicants are accepted after an extremely rigorous application process.

Twice a year, the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds invites scientists of worldwide repute to its International Titisee Conferences. Since 1962, experts from all nations have been meeting in the Black Forest (southern Germany) to discuss the latest results and developments in different areas of the molecular life sciences. Click here to read more about Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds