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GSC 97:  Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering (DIGS-BB)

Subject Area Medicine
Term from 2006 to 2018
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 24185540
 
Final Report Year 2020

Final Report Abstract

The Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering (DIGS-BB), founded in 2006, currently hosts 112 PhD students and 72 Research groups. Together with its partner program, the International Max Planck Research School for Cell, Developmental and Systems Biology (IMPRS- CellDevoSys) it has become one of the largest international PhD programs in the field of life sciences in Germany. As an innovative cross-faculty institution of the TU Dresden it serves as a model for the university- wide doctoral system. Approximately 700 junior scientists from all over the world apply each year for admission to one of its six highly interconnected scientific research tracks “Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology”, “Biomedicine”, “Regenerative and Degenerative Biology”, “Bioengineering and Biomaterials”, “Biophysics” and “Computational Biology”. By educating and supporting the selected young scientists, the DIGS-BB is key for the high standards and extraordinary dynamics that drive the life sciences at TUD. The factors that ensure the quality of DIGS-BB PhD students are (i) the highly competitive selection process of the applicants; (ii) a supervision concept that is tailored for each doctoral candidate individually; (iii) a support structure that offers state-of-the art technologies including experts in the fields; and (iv) a training concept that has been adapted to reflect the interdisciplinary orientation of the research projects. Thanks to the support gained through the privileged recruitment of excellent doctoral candidates and the anchoring and integration in the strong interdisciplinary community of Biopolis Dresden, the DIGS-BB is also an excellent career-advancing institution for junior research group leaders and postdocs. In the second funding period, the DIGS-BB extended the support and supervision aspects to the postdoctoral phase, as well as to BSc and Master students via DIGS-BB research internship programs. Also, PhD students profited from opportunities offered to outreach their research data, as well as to receive career advice along the PhD time. Furthermore, junior group leaders have been supported by the status of “TUD Young Investigators” that allows this high-performing group the supervision of PhD students, participation in doctorate proceedings as reviewers and examiners and integration in the respective Faculties. By pursuing the successful path run since its foundation in 2006 and by continually improving its offers, the DIGS- BB has successfully established itself as an internationally recognized and leading graduate center.

Link to the final report

https://doi.org/10.2314/KXP:1699289700

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