DBM Junior Faculty
The Department of Biomedicine actively promotes careers of young investigators and encourage excellent researchers to apply at all stages.
SNF Professorial Fellowships (Eccellenza and SNF Starting Grant)
SNF Professorial Fellowship address young researchers who intend to pursue an academic career and wish to establish their own team to realise a research project at the DBM and the University of Basel.
SNF Professors/SNF Eccellenza/SNF Starting Grant Holders at the DBM:
- Mariana Borsa (2024)
- Jean-Christophe Beltra (2023)
- Karen Dixon (2023)
- Anne-Katrin Pröbstel (2020 and 2022)
- Katharina Timper (2020)
- Gregor Hutter (2018)
For details on the upcoming round of applications, please consult our internal guidelines.
Alumni
- Sara Meyer (2019) ► University of Zürich
- Jan Gründemann (2018) ► Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE)
- Carolyn King (2016)
- Eline Pecho-Vrieseling (2016)
- Nicola Aceto (2016) ► ETH Zürich
- Lukas Jeker (2014)
- Roxane Tussiwand (2014) ► NIH
SNSF Ambizione(-SCORE) and SNSF PRIMA
These SNSF fellowships are aimed at young researchers who wish to conduct, manage and lead an independent research project at the DBM and develop their own research program. They are mentored by a DBM research group leader.
Current SNSF Ambizione SCORE fellows at the DBM:
- Karen Dixon (2022)
- Christine Blume (2022)
- Francesc Baixauli Celda (2022)
- Ruta Lasauskaite (2020) ► UPK Basel
- Lucas Boeck (2019)
Alumni:
Professor Dr Max Cloëtta Foundation
The Prof. Dr. Max Cloëtta Foundation finances medical research positions at Swiss universities, clinics and institutes. The Cloëtta positions for medical research are intended for fully trained and independently working researchers, especially if they are suitable for positions to be created later or that become vacant. By creating long-term research positions, the Prof. Dr. Max Cloëtta Foundation aims to promote the careers of young researchers in Switzerland.
Current Medical Research Scholarship Holders at the DBM:
Alumni:
- Salvatore Piscuoglio (2021) ► Humanitas University
ERC Starting Grants
ERC Starting Grants aim to support up-and-coming research leaders who are about to establish a proper research team and to start conducting independent research in Europe.
ERC Starting Grant holders at the DBM:
- Jean-Christophe Beltra (2025)
- Mariana Borsa (2025)
- Jan Gründemann (2018) ► Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE)
- Nicola Aceto (2016) ► ETH Zürich
- Tania Barkat Rinaldi (2014)
- Daniel Pinschewer (2013)
ERC Consolidator Grants
ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.
ERC Consolidator grants at the DBM:
Alumni:
- Claudia Lengerke (2020) ► Universitätsklinikum Tübingen
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