Prizes, Scholarships and Independent Funding within the Group
"PhD Externships":
One pillar of our scientific training philosophy is to encourage and support our PhD students to take 3 months off their home projects and go to world-leading labs abroad. With Corona restrictions lifting, these externships are helping our students to acquire new skillsets and mindsets, while working on completely different topics that they independently design and propose. This refreshes the air during the PhD years, builds bridges to support postdoc applications and start collaborations, and is a prestigious and enjoyable recognition for our intellectual commitment and hard work.
- Philipp Mauker: Yasuteru Urano at Uni Tokyo (2023; Joachim Herz fellowship)
- Markus Müller: Evan Miller at UC Berkeley (2023; Joachim Herz fellowship & BaCaTec grant)
- Lukas Zeisel: Andy Myers at Harvard (2023; Otto Bayer fellowship)
- Jan Felber: Ben Cravatt at Scripps (2022)
- Alex Sailer: Dirk Trauner at NYU (2021; DAAD fellowship)
Individual Awards within the group - our "journal cover gallery":
We strongly encourage and support our group members to secure individual funding and prizes. Winning your own funding is an integral step in an academic career, allows you to test your knowledge and ideas against the rigour of the peer review system, and is a prestigious recognition for any CV. We also feel that supporting our group members to win prizes and recognition is a better investment than building a collection of journal vanity covers.
| Julia Brandmeier Central award for Best MSc Research at LMU 2024 |
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| Dr. Jan Felber Studienstiftung Friedrich Hirzebruch Prize for the best PhD in natural sciences in Germany, 2024 |
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| Julia Brandmeier PROSA-LMU Abroad Fellowship 2023 (Melbourne, Australia) |
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| Lukas Zeisel Winner, inaugural Merck European Retrosynthesis Competition (solo!) 2023 |
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| Dr Jan Felber Winner, Symeres / European MedChem-ChemBio Federation EFMC PhD Prize 2023 |
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| Dr Li Gao Roche-EFMC Public Choice Prize for best junior scientist talk at EFMC 2023 |
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| Dr Li Gao GDCh's PhD representative to the EuroMedChem conference EFMC 2023 |
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| Dr Jan Felber Klaus Tschira KlarText PhD Prize 2023 in Chemistry (film online) |
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| Carina Schmitt Studienstiftung d.d.V. PhD Fellowship 2023 |
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| Dr Jan Felber GDCh Biochemistry PhD award 2023 (+ prize talk at the WiFo Leipzig conference) |
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| Lucas Dessen Weissenhorn FöFoLe Dr. med. scholarship 2023 |
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| Dr Li Gao GDCh Medicinal Chemistry PhD prize 2023 (+ prize talk at the FiMC Vienna conference) |
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| Dr Martin Reynders LMU-NYU Cooperation Grant 2023 |
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| Markus Müller BaCaTec Exchange Project 2023 (to UC Berkeley, USA) |
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| Dr Jan Felber AbbVie Promotionspreis PhD award 2023 |
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| Dr Julia Thorn-Seshold CeNS Investment Award 2022 |
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| Alexander Sailer Alexander von Humboldt Postdoc Fellowship 2022 |
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| Lukas Zeisel CeNS Publication Award 2022 |
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| Markus Müller Joachim-Herz Add-On Research Fellowship 2022 |
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| Lukas Zeisel Otto Bayer Fellowship in Drug Discovery 2022 |
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| Dr Martin Reynders CeNS Young Investigator 2021 |
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| Philipp Mauker Joachim-Herz Add-On Research Fellowship 2021 |
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| Elena Fajardo-Ruiz Stiftung d. d. Wirtschaft Fellowship 2021 |
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| Jan Felber CeNS Nano Innovation Award 2021 - Silver Award |
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| Dr Martin Reynders SPP1926 Next Generation Optogenetics Young Investigator Grant 2021 |
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| Dr Martin Maier Merck Innovation Cup Winner MedChem Competition 2021 |
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| Philipp Mauker Studienstiftung d.d.V. PhD Fellowship 2021 |
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| Lukas Zeisel Römer Prize (MSc) 2020 |
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| Adrian Müller-Deku CeNS Publication Award 2020 |
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| Lukas Zeisel Fonds der Chemischen Industrie Kekulé PhD Scholarship 2020 |
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| Ben Winkler Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship 2020 |
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| Lukas Zeisel Lindau Nobel Meeting Selectee 2020, 2021 & 2022 |
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| Alex Sailer DAAD PhD Exchange scholarship 2021 (NYU, USA) |
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| Lena Poczka FöFoLe & GRK2338 Dr. med. scholarship 2020 |
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| Dr Julia Thorn-Seshold Joachim-Herz Translational Research Fellowship 2019 |
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| Jan Felber Studienstiftung d.d.V. PhD Fellowship 2019 |
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| Magdalena Scheck PROSA-LMU Abroad Fellowship 2019 (Biel, Switzerland) |
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| Dr Julia Thorn-Seshold & Dr Kristina Loy CiPSMwomen 2019 Fund |
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| Jan Felber Römer Prize (MSc) 2018 |
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