The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds’ Board of Trustees, including six internationally renowned scientists, selects the topics and chairs of the conferences.
Selection criteria
Conference topics must be from basic biomedical research, highly topical and/or cover a field where major advances are currently being made.
The chair and co-chair must be an internationally renowned scientists, who have made major contributions to the respective field.
They should be able to bring together the leading scientists of two or three different scientific communities to stimulate interdisciplinary exchange and co-operation.
The chair should be a scientist working in Europe.
The International Titisee Conferences are held every spring and autumn. The arrangements begin two years in advance. In late October or early November, the Foundation´s Board of Trustees, entrusts the conferences for the year after next to two scientists. Suggestions and proposals from the scientific community are welcome.
Proposals for topics and chairpersons for the International Titisee Conferences are informal and need not exceed three pages. They should, however, name the chairs and briefly describe their major contributions to the field. They should also state why the proposed topic is relevant and at the cutting edge of science and explain why these particular sub-disciplines should be brought together. Proposals can be submitted via e-mail to Iris Bodenbender (iris[at]bifonds.de).
100 International Titisee Conferences have been held in the hospitable atmosphere of the southern Black Forest since 1962. Read more about past conference topics and chairs.
