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Else Kröner Excellence Fellowships 2023 awarded to outstanding physicians
Else Kröner Excellence Fellowships make it possible for medical doctors to advance a particularly promising medical research project through a two-year leave of absence from clinical duties. Intended thereby is to enable above all senior physicians to attain the qualifications for appointment to a professorship within the scope of a Clinician Scientist.

Else Kröner Graduate Schools for Medical Students 2023
Graduate Schools in Jena, Mainz and Regensburg receive € 900,000 per program in funding


Else Kröner Fresenius Symposium for Breakthroughs in Life Sciences
This year EKFS was a partner at the Falling Walls Science Summit for the second time. On November 8, 2023 the foundation funded the Else Kröner Fresenius Symposium for Breakthroughs in Life Sciences, thereby unifying the “Falling Walls Breakthroughs 2023” in the category “Life Sciences”.

Checking back: What is Dr. Adrian Gottschlich, successful first-round and second-time applicant from 2023, doing these days?
In our series Checking back, today we are introducing you to Dr. Adrian Gottschlich – medical resident at the Medical Clinic and Polyclinic III, Dept. of Oncology & Hematology at the University Hospital of Munich (LMU) as well as a first-round and second-time applicant for funding in 2023.

EKFS panel “Innovative Academic Cooperations ─ Partnerships to improve health”
World Health Summit 2023

Else Kröner Memorial Fellowships 2023
EKFS facilitates excellence in tomorrow’s medicine and awards nine fellowships to particularly talented young physicians.

Checking back: What is Dr. Leonhard Möckl, successful first-round and second-time applicant from 2020, doing these days?
In our series Checking back, today we are introducing you to Dr. Leonhard Möckl. Since 2020 the chemist has been an independent group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Erlangen, Germany. EKFS has funded his project toward developing new strategies in cancer therapy since 2020.

G20 Health Ministers’ Meeting in India: Prof. Jakob N. Kather accompanies delegation around Federal Health Minister Prof. Karl Lauterbach
The focus was on digital health and the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

A look back at the 5th Translational Research Workshop held by ForTra: “How can we improve the benefit of medical research for patients?”
Highly acclaimed figures from translational research delight the audience