Presented at the discussion panel "Research in Germany" - XV B-MRS Meeting - Campinas, SP, Brazil - September, 25 to 29, 2016.

1. C. James Kirkpatrick, MD, PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FBSE, FTERM
Emeritus Professor of Pathology, Johannes Gutenberg University
Mainz
Senior Professor Visiting Professor
Goethe University of Frankfurt University of Gothenburg
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Materials Research Society
XV Brazilian Meeting
26 September 2016
Campinas, Brazil
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Research in Germany :
a clinician-scientist‘s view

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1. short personal presentation : who I am
2. short personal presentation : my research
3. research landscape in Germany : DFG etc.
Structure of presentation

3. 1985-1987
1987-1993
1980-19851968-1978

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Chair of Pathology [1993-2015]
Johannes Gutenberg University
Mainz
Goethe University
Frankfurt
since 2016
Senior Professor
European Institute of Excellence in Tissue
Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (2010)

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industry
European
Research
Council (ERC)
European
European
Commission
(EC)
Research funding in Germany
state funding
very elaborate
system
foundations
charities
BMBF
Helmholtz, Max Planck,
Fraunhofer, Leibniz

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Research funded by German federal funds
Ministry of
Defense
Ministry of the
Environment
Ministry of Education
& Research [BMBF]
usually with industrial partner(s)
 principally for basic research
 most prestigious funder
 different program types
e.g. individual projects, collaborative research centers (SFB),
clinical research groups, research centers

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Research organizations in Germany
universities
under individual
state (“Länder”)
control
autonomous
Federal & State funding

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2 Priority programmes [each 6 yr]
4 Individual Projects
10 Projects
1 Network of excellence
4 Marie-Curie Projects
5 Projects
6 Projects [1 of which German-Chinese
Cooperation (RegMed)]
2 Projects
not listed : various
clinical studies & industrial projects