PhD Opportunities in Medical Science in Germany

The International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Plant Science (IMPRS MolPlant) is a joint doctoral programme of the University of Potsdam and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany. It offers PhD research and training in modern plant science within an interdisciplinary and research-intensive environment. Doctoral researchers work on fundamental questions in plant biology, including photosynthesis, central metabolism, respiration, organ and tissue fo...

The International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Organ Biology (IMPRS-MOB) offers a structured doctoral programme in a strong research environment focused on molecular, cellular and organ biology . The programme is based at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim and is run in cooperation with Justus Liebig University Giessen , Goethe University Frankfurt , and the Cardio Pulmonary Institute . Doctoral researchers carry out their thesis project under the dir...

The International Max Planck Research School for Epigenetics, Biophysics and Metabolism (IMPRS-EBM) is a collaborative doctoral programme between the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics and the Faculty of Biology at the University of Freiburg. The programme offers research-oriented interdisciplinary training across epigenetics, biophysics, metabolism, biochemistry, cell biology, proteomics, bioinformatics, and functional genomics. Doctoral researchers rotate through three labor...

The International Max Planck Research School for Biology and Computation (IMPRS-BAC) is a doctoral programme jointly run by the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin. It brings together research and training across the departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy at FUB, alongside the research environment of MPIMG. The programme is designed around the growing interface between molecular genetics and information scie...

The International Leibniz Research School for Microbial and Biomolecular Interactions (ILRS Jena) is a doctoral programme based at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, in Jena, in cooperation with Friedrich Schiller University Jena. The programme brings together research on microbial natural products and infection biology, with a particular emphasis on human-pathogenic fungi. PhD researchers work on how microorganisms interact with other...

The International Graduate School GFL at the University of Education Freiburg offers a structured doctoral programme in German as a Foreign Language (Deutsch als Fremdsprache). The programme is run in cooperation with the German Jordanian University in Amman and is designed for qualified candidates from the MENA region and beyond who want to pursue research leading to a PhD. The doctoral study is centered on research and teaching in foreign language education, with a particular focus on how Germ...

The International Doctoral Programme in Computational Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary PhD programme hosted by the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin (BCCN Berlin) in Berlin. It is run in cooperation with Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin , bringing together a broad scientific environment for doctoral research in the brain sciences. The programme focuses on computational neuroscience as a field that connec...

Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo) in Dortmund is offering a PhD position in the Department of Toxicology within an interdisciplinary research environment that combines ergonomics, immunology, toxicology, psychology, and neuroscience. The project focuses on metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and its progression from steatosis to steatohepatitis and more severe liver disease. The research aims to clarify how bile macropinocytosi...

Two funded PhD positions are available in Kenneth Dumack’s group at the University of Koblenz, Germany, investigating an unusual photosynthetic rhizarian and its complex plastid. The projects aim to determine how the plastid was acquired and how this organelle is integrated into the eukaryotic cell. One PhD project centers on evolutionary genomics and bioinformatic physiology, offering a computational perspective on plastid evolution and cellular function. The second project focuses on cell biol...