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Nov 6
Your next research step in Germany? 🔬 The Humboldt Research Fellowship supports postdocs and experienced researchers across all disciplines.
📅 Next call opens on 15 November 2026.
👉 sohub.io/d5ke

#FundingFriday
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Humboldt Research Fellowship. Take your next research step in Germany. What’s in it for you: Open to postdocs and experienced researchers across all disciplines. Postdocs: €3,000 per month for 6 to 24 months. Experienced researchers: €3,600 per month for 6 to 18 months. Collaborate with a host at a research institution in Germany. Next call opens on 15 November!
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Nov 4
🤝 Are you looking for opportunities to connect, learn and advance your research career?

📆 Here are some of the upcoming events for researchers in November 2026 you won’t want to miss 👉 sohub.io/2pb5
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Oct 30
More time to focus on your research? 🔬 The CNV Scholarship supports female PhD candidates & postdocs with children in experimental natural sciences and basic medical research. 📅 Apply by 30 November👉 sohub.io/69uk #FundingFriday
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Oct 27
Are you conducting research in life sciences or biotech in Germany? 🧬 Browse BioRN’s website to explore their services, career options, news and events. 👥 👉 biorn.org
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Oct 26
📣 The Institute of Molecular Medicine and Experimental Immunology (IMMEI) @UniklinikBonn offers a postdoctoral research position in T cell Immunology.
🗓️ Find more information and apply by 30 november here 👉 sohub.io/3fq4
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Oct 23
Need dedicated time for your next major scholarly work? 📚
The Volkswagen Foundation’s Opus Magnum programme funds a substitute professorship for 6–18 months. 📅 Apply by 18 November! 👉 sohub.io/h802 #FundingFriday
Colourful background with following text: Volkswagen Foundation. Opus Magnum. Make time for your major scholarly work. What you can look forward to: 6 to18 months of funding for professors from the humanities and social sciences, funding for a substitute professorship, up to €220,000 in total to finance the substitute professorship and additional non-personnel cost, dedicated time to complete a major scholarly work.
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Oct 23
📣 The International Max Planck Research School for Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Materials (IMPRS-CPQM) offers more than 20 PhD research projects in chemistry and physics.
🗓️ Apply by 30 november here 👉 sohub.io/6o32
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Oct 21
📣 TU Darmstadt offers a full-time Research Associate / PostDoc position in the ERC project "Tools for Protecting Data and Function Privacy".
🗓️ Apply by 8 November here (initial date, later applications will be accepted until position has been filled) 👉 sohub.io/86kr
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Oct 20
You are researching in Germany and need data for cross-location research? Register on The German Research Data Portal for Health (FDPG) and log in on their website to use a wide range of data for your research project 👉 sohub.io/ynfo
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Oct 19
💊Researchers at @Helmholtz_HZI are changing the rules of the race against antibiotic resistance by developing a #pathoblocker that disarms a dangerous bacterium instead of killing it. #AMR

​Learn how they are contributing to #MedicineOfTheFuture 👉 sohub.io/l659
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Oct 16
The Max Planck Schools offer three different programmes! 🔬 Calls for applications are open in the following fields: @MPS_cog PhD, @mps_bmai, AI PhD and cognition & photonics.
📅 Application deadlines vary!
👉 sohub.io/54u9
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Colourful background with following text: Calls you should look out for. Find your next opportunity at the Max Planck Schools For PhD candidates and established researchers Swipe to find your fit! Colourful background with following text: Max Planck School of Cognition. PhD Programme. Explore the science of cognition. What’s in it for you: fully funded 4-year PhD program, interdisciplinary research on cognition, orientation year plus 3 years of doctoral research, open to bachelor’s and master’s graduates. Apply by 1 December 2026.
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Oct 15
Advancing the medicine of the future also means taking risks in research. 🧬

Klaus Tschira Boost Fellow Tim Warwick explores how genetic variation may influence disease risk and shares what helps when research outcomes are uncertain.

Read more 👉 sohub.io/vd7z
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Oct 13
📣 The University Hospital Bonn offers 10 PhD positions in the new DFG Research Training Group „Urban Future – managing transformations for a better health in blue cities“.
🗓️ Apply by 2 November and find more information in the PhDGermany-database 👉 sohub.io/ttbc
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Oct 13
🏥💻 Germany’s healthcare system is going digital. What’s in it for you? The gesund.bund website explains everything you need to know about health and digitalisation in Germany. 👉 sohub.io/di4z
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Oct 12
Every cell has a story to tell – and Ashley Sanders builds the tools to read it. In her lab at the Max Delbrück Center, she investigates the first changes in single cells in order to stop disease before it begins. @sanders_lab #MedicineOfTheFuture
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Oct 12
How can AI improve care for people with Parkinson's disease? At TH OWL's inIT, Dr. Christoph-Alexander Holst and team work with Klinikum Lippe on PD Assist / PD Assist+ — AI-powered digital solutions. Find out more 👉 sohub.io/75cw
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@Nature
Oct 10
After being on many scientists’ shortlists for years, the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognized optogenetics — a technology that allows researchers to control the brain’s neurons with pulses of light

go.nature.com/4eqs2kb
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Oct 10
Curiosity often sparks scientific breakthroughs. For 2026 medicine laureate Peter Hegemann, it began with a question: how could a tiny green alga called Chlamydomonas react so rapidly to light?

The Chlamydomonas algae is famous for its ability to swim towards light. When the petri dish, the liquid turns a faint green colour. If one side of the dish is illuminated, the green colour moves towards the light source, as the microscopic algae swim towards it. The algae sense the light with an eyespot, a dot on the cell’s surface that contains a light-capturing molecule, retinal.

Hegemann discovered electrical signals in the light-sensitive eyespot that occurred just half a millisecond after illumination, far faster than the response of the human eye. He could only think of one explanation for this ultrafast response: the process must be much simpler than in a human eye. He proposed that a single protein could both detect light and act as an ion channel, an idea initially met with scepticism.

After years of experiments with his colleague Georg Nagel, Hegemann's hypothesis proved to be correct. Together, they discovered proteins that functioned exactly as he had predicted: ion channels that opened in response to light. This breakthrough laid the foundation for optogenetics, a revolutionary technique that allows scientists to control individual nerve cells with light. What began as a question about a microscopic alga ultimately helped transform the field of neuroscience.

Read more about the newly awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: bit.ly/4jNd5w7
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Oct 5
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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All about Germany | deutschland.de
@en_germany
Oct 12
🎓Germany is the most popular non-English-speaking host country for international students. Around one in ten of the approximately three million students comes from abroad.

You can read here why Germany is so popular:

spkl.io/60187VN7s
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