DKFZ Clinician Scientist Fellowship

The DKFZ Clinician Scientist Fellowships provide protected research time, comprehensive training offers and intersectoral mentoring relationships to ambitious and outstanding clinician scientists in training. 

What the DKFZ Clinician Scientist Fellowship has to offer

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Funding and Duration 

DKFZ Clinician Scientist salaries are competitive by national standards and are negotiated and confirmed during the recruitment phase should a fellowship be offered.

Fellowship contracts are initially offered for two years and can be used within the Clinician Scientist Program period of four years, e.g. if clinical work needs to be interspersed. We acknowledge that clinician scientists' careers need to be handled with great flexibility. Therefore, Fellows must develop their individual fellowship timeline together with their mentors and present this to the Clinician Scientist Program Office within the first 1,5 months after starting the fellowship.

Competitive 2-year full-time Fellowships are offered to early-career physicians undergoing specialized medical training, aiming to enhance their careers through valuable research experience. DKFZ Clinician Scientist Fellowship working contracts are exclusively intended for academic research purposes. Recognizing the need for flexibility in clinician scientists' careers, fellowship contracts can be used in part-time within the period of four years, e.g. if clinical work needs to be interspersed. (Note: if fellows wish to pursue clinical work alongside the fellowship, it is their responsibility to independently explore and apply for a clinician position elsewhere.)

We acknowledge that clinician scientists' careers need to be handled with great flexibility. Therefore, Fellows must develop their individual fellowship timeline together with an academic and clinical supervisor.

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What you need to know about the application process

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