Clinician Scientist CareerS Münster

© Clinician Scientist CareerS Münster

We want to support you in your role as a clinician scientist! 

Our CareerS programme is open to candidates working on any research topic in any clinical discipline. The programme offers different modules tailored to specific career stages. These career support modules are designed to enable you to flexibly combine scientific and clinical work. Funding should also help you apply successfully for grants from other internal faculty and external programmes.

CareerS support modules

  • Student: Get involved in research during your medical studies
  • Starter: Support in your early-career research during your clinical specialisation training (application deadline 1 March/1 September)
  • Boost: A “career booster” for advanced scientific qualifications during your clinical specialisation training (application deadline 1 March/1 September)
  • Group: Funding to set up your own research group in parallel to your clinical work (application deadline 1 March)
  • Professor: Tenure-track options for combining research and clinical work in the long term

Balancing a career and family

  • CareerS LabAid (PDF): Support for CareerS grant recipients during pregnancy or with special caregiving responsibilities within the family, in the form of funding for a student assistant (SHK) (application to be submitted with the application for the CareerS Starter, Boost or Group module or at any time while receiving funding through one of these modules)

Advancing gender equity

  • MOMENTUM Women’s Leadership Journey: We are able to provide financial support for the participation of some CareerS grant recipients in the Faculty of Medicine's MOMENTUM leadership programme. This programme empowers female scientists seeking to pursue an academic career in order to help balance the proportion of women and men in leadership positions. (Impressions and information, application deadline 31 January; please contact us before submitting an application)

Further funding opportunities for clinician scientists

  • Exchange grants
    Funding for early-career scientists from the Faculty of Medicine wishing to spend a period of time conducting research in external laboratories in Germany or abroad; “Innovative Medical Research” (IMF) programme
  • Flexible research time for female scientists [de]
    Rotation from clinical work to research for medical professionals seeking habilitation in a clinical discipline