Deutsche Stiftung für Herzforschung supports basic and clinical cardiovascular research in Germany, with a clear emphasis on patient-facing questions, prevention, diagnosis, and heart surgery. It combines project grants with annual science prizes, and it appears especially interested in recognizing and advancing early-career researchers and high-quality conference or abstract-based work. Its giving is tightly focused on heart and circulatory medicine rather than broad health or medical philanthropy.
Primarily Germany-focused, program-based support through annual awards and competitive project funding. Grants are relatively modest to mid-sized, ranging from about $5,000 prizes to $80,000 project grants, with some opportunities available year-round and others awarded annually; several appear to be prize-style recognitions rather than open-ended operating support.
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Applicants should align proposals closely with patient-near cardiovascular research and, for project funding, emphasize clinical relevance, prevention, diagnostics, or heart surgery. Project applications can reportedly be submitted at any time, while the annual prizes do not list fixed deadlines on the site, so interested researchers should monitor the foundation’s announcements and be prepared for a German-language, research-focused review process.
Current and upcoming funding from Deutsche Stiftung für Herzforschung that your nonprofit may be able to apply for.
Who can apply: Anträge können Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler stellen, die auf dem Gebiet der Herz-Kreislauf-Medizin in Deutschland forschen. Die Stiftung legt Wert auf patientennahe Forschungsfragen; gefördert werden insbesondere klar abgegrenzte wissenschaftliche Projekte.
Deadline: Anträge können jederzeit gestellt werden.
Who can apply: Wissenschaftler/innen, die auf dem Gebiet der Herz-Kreislauf-Medizin in Deutschland forschen; patientennahe Fragestellungen werden bevorzugt. Bewerbungsrichtlinien sind zu beachten.
Deadline: Anträge können jederzeit gestellt werden; keine feste Frist genannt (eingehende Anträge werden geprüft).
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