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:

• 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) ► Research group leader DBM
• Eline Pecho-Vrieseling (2016) 
• Nicola Aceto (2016) ► ETH Zürich
• Lukas Jeker (2014) ►Research group leader DBM
• 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)
• Lucas Boeck (2019)

Alumni:

• Magdalena Filipowicz-Sinnreich (2017) ► KSBL and RGL at the DBM

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:

• Jan Gründemann (2018) ► Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE)
• Nicola Aceto (2016) ► ETH Zürich
• Tania Barkat Rinaldi (2014) ►DBM Research Group Leader
• Daniel Pinschewer (2013) ► DBM Research Grouup Leader 

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:

• Carolyn King (2022)
• Lukas Jeker (2018)

Alumni:

• Claudia Lengerke (2020) ► Universitätsklinikum Tübingen