Apply for a prestigious DKFZ Postdoc Fellowship
The DKFZ Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded through a competitive recruitment process. Highly talented and motivated young scientists, who wish to work at the forefront of basic and translational cancer research are very welcome to apply. This program offers up to 7 fellowships per year and provides interdisciplinary training and research opportunities in state-of-the-art research facilities for excellent young scientists, no longer than 2 years past graduation.
Our postdocs work on projects covering many disciplines, ranging from biology, biochemistry, and bioinformatics to epidemiology research, medicine, physics, and mathematics. We strongly encourage interdisciplinarity and are welcoming innovative research proposals.
Apply for a Dr. Rurainski Postdoctoral Fellowship at DKFZ (in epigenetics)
The Dr. Rurainki Postdoctoral Fellowships at DKFZ are awarded through a competitive recruitment process to highly talented and motivated young scientists, who wish to work at the forefront of basic and translational cancer research in the field of epigenetics. This program offers 1 fully-funded fellowship for an extension of 3 years and provides interdisciplinary training and research opportunities in state-of-the-art research facilities for excellent young scientists, no longer than 2 years past graduation.
Our postdocs work on projects covering many disciplines, ranging from biology, biochemistry, and bioinformatics to epidemiology research, medicine, physics, and mathematics. We strongly encourage interdisciplinarity and are welcoming innovative research proposals.
Apply for the DKFZ Marie Curie MasterClasses
Do you want to do excellent research supported by one of the most prestigious postdoctoral programs in Europe? Do you want to work at a leading research institution with colleagues from all over the world? Do you want to be mentored by world-class scientists? Do you want to expand the frontiers of your knowledge by accessing cutting-edge research facilities and state-of-the-art labs? Do you want to contribute researching for a Life without Cancer? Our DKFZ Marie Curie MasterClasses support you achieving it.
Apply directly to research groups at DKFZ
If you have already secured your own funding you may email the heads of DKFZ research divisions and groups who you are interested in working with, to inquire as to whether a position may be available in their laboratory. You can also search for specific research topics using the Topic Finder, where you can find an overview of all divisions and research groups of DKFZ’s six Research Programs.
Postdoc in Germany
You're going to be a Postdoc in Germany? The following links provide valuable information about what you might need to know
External Funding Possibilities
It is also possible to get your own funding outside the DKFZ and find a group at the DKFZ to host you.
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Research Fellowships)
- Deutsche Krebshilfe
- Helmholtz Association current calls for applications
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowships
- Heidelberg University
- International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)
- Daimler-Benz Foundation