Our purpose

The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds is a public foundation - an independent, not-for-profit institution for the exclusive and direct promotion of basic research in biomedicine. It supports researchers and projects aimed to experimentally elucidate basic phenomena of human life and pays particular attention to the promotion of junior scientists.

The Foundation awards long-term fellowships to PhD students, supporting some 110 PhDs worldwide at the same time. It grants travel grants to PhD students and post-doctoral scientists to enable them to participate in short-term practicals in laboratories further afield or in scientific courses, e.g. summer or winter schools. In both programmes, the Foundation supports Europeans working in Europe and overseas and students from overseas working in Europe. It awards fellowships to medical students who study in Germany to give them the opportunity of pursuing excellent research. Senior scientists are mainly addressed by the International Titisee Conferences.

The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds is a foundation specifically geared to and intended for people.