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Research

Awards, Prizes, Scholarships

2024

Tilman Hölting receives the young talent award of the National Decade against Cancer.
Dr. Jing Li, MD receives a 3-year „Own Position" grant by the German Cancer Aid.

2023

ERC Consolidator Grant 2023 for Thomas Grünewald
Melissa Schmucker receives a scholarship as part of the Mildred Scheel doctoral program of the German Cancer Aid.
Dr. Kimberley Hanssen receives a research scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Mallory Brodnik receives a Fulbright research scholarship.
David Obermeier receives a scholarship as part of the Mildred Scheel doctoral program of the German Cancer Aid.

2022

Florian Geyer receives a scholarship as part of the Mildred Scheel doctoral program of the German Cancer Aid.
Alina Ritter receives a scholarship as part of the Mildred Scheel doctoral program of the German Cancer Aid.

2021

Anna Ehlers receives a scholarship as part of the Mildred Scheel doctoral program of the German Cancer Aid.
Tobias Faehling receives a Heinrich F.C. Behr scholarship from the DKFZ and Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg.
Malenka Zimmermann receives a PhD scholarship of the Kind-Philipp-Stiftung.

2020

Thomas Grünewald receives the Rudolf-Virchow-Prize 2020. DKFZ Press Release (in German only)
Cornelius Funk receives a scholarship as part of the Mildred Scheel doctoral program of the German Cancer Aid.
Endrit Vinca receives a Heinrich F.C. Behr scholarship from the DKFZ and Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg.