Research Funding 2025 – Foundation for the Promotion of Research and Teaching at the Department of Human Medicine of Philipps University Marburg (Medical Foundation)
The Medical Foundation of Philipps University Marburg supports early-career researchers and infrastructural measures in the Department of Human Medicine. Details and requirements are described in the 2025 funding guidelines.
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Grant criteria
Funding objective
The aim of the funding is to enable early-career researchers to independently acquire project grants from the DFG and to support infrastructural measures at the Faculty of Human Medicine of Philipps University Marburg.
Eligible expenses
- Personnel positions (up to 51% for Medical Scientists)
- Infrastructure measures
- Establishment or expansion of Core Facilities
Eligible to apply
- Public Institutions
Funding requirements
- Application by a professor of the Faculty of Medicine with a letter of support from the institute/clinic management
- Employment rate of at least 49% throughout the entire funding period (state or third-party funds)
- Early career researchers no more than 4 years post-PhD (DFG definition)
- At least one publication as first author or corresponding author
- Proof of parental leave or illness-related absences (medical certificates)
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Documents required for application
- Letter of support from the institute/clinic management
- Proof of an employment rate of at least 49%
- Proof of parental leave and absences
- Proof of a publication as first or corresponding author
- Ethics committee approval (for human subject material)
- Approval of the animal experiment application (for animal experiments)
- Final report for previous funding
- Dean's office approval for infrastructure measures
Evaluation criteria
- Scientific quality of the project
- Suitability for DFG application
- Strengthening of existing funding networks (e.g. CRC, DFG Research Unit)
- Cooperation between basic and clinical research groups
- Contribution to infrastructure improvement
Description
The research funding of the Medical Foundation of Philipps University Marburg is aimed at early-career researchers and professors of the Department of Human Medicine as well as "Medical Scientists" who wish to independently submit DFG proposals within four years after their doctorate. The goal is, on the one hand, to strengthen the ability to acquire external project funding from the German Research Foundation and, on the other hand, to specifically expand scientific infrastructure. Both personnel positions (up to 51% employment shares for Medical Scientists) and infrastructural measures, such as the establishment or expansion of core facilities, are funded. The funds are available to public institutions in Hesse and are granted as subsidies. Projects are evaluated in a two-stage review process by an ad hoc commission of the department, with scientific quality, eligibility for DFG proposals, and contribution to infrastructure improvement being central evaluation criteria.
Applications are submitted through a professor of the Department of Medicine and require a written endorsement from the institute or clinic management as well as – for infrastructure projects – an additional positive endorsement from the dean’s office. A minimum employment rate of 49% throughout the entire project duration, documentation of parental or illness-related absences, at least one first-author publication, and, if applicable, approvals from the ethics committee or the animal experimentation committee are prerequisites. Follow-up applications require a final report and proof of successful external funding. Through targeted support of collaborative projects between basic and clinical research groups, interdisciplinary exchange is strengthened and sustainable networks within the Medical Faculty are established.
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