34 PhD programmes in Biology in Germany

The Graduate School of Life Sciences at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) offers an interdisciplinary structured training programme for scientific and medical doctoral students in the Faculty of Medicine and the Department of Biology.

The Graduate School Life Science Engineering at Darmstadt University of Technology provides an exceptional interdisciplinary educational program for highly qualified international scientists and students.

Biology at the University of Würzburg is characterised by its diversity of topics and interdisciplinarity. This PhD program is offered within the Faculty of Biology.

The areas comprising the "Molecular Biosciences" doctoral programme at University of Bayreuth range from organic chemistry to biochemistry, biophysics, molecular biology, all the way to biotechnology.

A structured training Konstanz Research School Chemical Biology programme from University of Konstanz provides scientific as well as transferable skill courses. Our doctoral researchers benefit from our partnerships with academic institutions and leading companies around the world.

The Regenerative Sciences program at Hannover Medical School was developed as part of the Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH – ‘From Regenerative Biology to Reconstructive Therapy’. 

Quantum Dynamics in Physics, Chemistry and Biology graduate students at Heidelberg University are trained in all aspects of quantum dynamics with special emphasis on the transition from simple to complex systems.

Regeneration is the renewal of degenerated or lost cells, tissues or organs within an organism. Such regenerative processes are mainly based on the action of specific stem or progenitor cells that possess the capacity to proliferate and differentiate into the required cell-types. This Regenerative and Degenerative Biology programme is offered at TU Dresden.

The Faculty and several affiliated institutes and their research facilities have developed a multifaceted Ph.D. Program, which allows for modern and highly sophisticated training and education of our Ph.D. students. Join this Biosciences program at Heidelberg University.

Our Cancer Risk Factors and Prevention Program at German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg focuses on identifying risk factors (primary prevention), improve early detection and screening strategies (secondary prevention), as well as approaches to prevent disease progression and to improve quality of life (tertiary prevention). 

An important characteristic of natural structures is their multi-layered, hierarchically structured, finely tuned and highly differentiated combination of a few basic molecular components leading to structures that are characterized by multiple networked functions. We offer a Biological Design and Integrative Structures degree at the University of Stuttgart. 

The doctoral program "Molecular Biology of Cells" is a member of the Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB). It is hosted by the Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB) and is conducted jointly by the University of Göttingen.

Starting in fall 2003, the Center for Infection Biology at Hannover Medical School launched the international PhD Program Infection Biology. 

The IMPRS on Multiscale Bio-Systems degree at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Podsdam is a graduate program, where young talented doctoral students can work on a challenging research project and develop their scientific communication and management skills.