Contact
The concept of the Doctoral Insights Symposium was developed in 2023 by the Vienna BioCenter PhD Program and organized in conjunction with other doctoral programs in the Vienna region. Other doctoral programs from Europe have joined in the initiative. For more information about the symposium do not hesitate to contact us.
If you have specific questions about a particular PhD program please check their website(s) for details.
Vienna (Austria) Programs
- Aithyra: aithyra.at/about/phd-program
- CeMM: https://cemm.at/
- ISTA: https://www.ist.ac.at/home
- VDSMES: https://vds-mes.univie.ac.at/
- Vienna BioCenter PhD Program (2 calls per year opening 1 September/1 March): https://training.vbc.ac.at/phd-program/
Czech Republic Program
- CEITEC PhD School (Call opens 1 Dec 2025 to 14 Feb 2026): www.ceitec.eu
Germany Programs
- EMBL, Heidelberg (Call open 1 Sept to 15 Oct 2025): https://www.embl.org/about/info/embl-international-phd-programme/
- IMPRS, Dortmund: https://www.imprs-lm.mpg.de/
- MDC, Berlin: https://www.mdc-berlin.de/careers/development/graduate-school
- DIGS-ILS, Dresden: https://www.digs-ils.phd/
- IMPRS-CellDevoSys, Dresden: https://imprs.mpi-cbg.de/
- International PhD Programme Mainz (Winter call open 8 Sept to 16 Oct 2025): www.imb.de/PhD
- DKFZ International PhD Program (Open call, deadline 15 Dec 2025): www.dkfz.de/phd
- International Max Planck Research School for Epigenetics, Biophysics and Metabolism (IMPRS-EBM): https://www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD-Program
Italy Program
- HT PhD Training Programme (Opens in March): https://humantechnopole.it/en/training/internal-training/
Netherlands Program
HIPP; Hubrecht International PhD Program: www.hubrecht.eu/hipp/
Spain Programs
- CRG International PhD Programme: https://www.crg.eu
- DYNAMIS - IDIBAPS Doctoral programme (Call open 1 Sept to 15 Oct 2025): https://www.clinicbarcelona.org/en/idibaps
Switzerland Program
- Life Science Zurich Graduate School (Call with deadline 1 November 2025): https://www.lifescience-graduateschool.uzh.ch/en.html
- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) PhD and MD-PhD programs: www.fmi.ch/education-careers/programs/
