As part of the selection process, candidates invited for an interview will be given information about the Ph.D. projects are available (usually about 120-150 per selection round). Candidates will then be asked to choose a limited number of projects. Not all of the Division / Research Group Heads at the DKFZ will be recruiting students during every selection, however below you will find a list of the Division / Research Group Heads (in alphabetical order) and a link to their website. All of the Ph.D. supervisors belong to one of seven Research Programs.

• Dr. Dr. Amir Abdollahi: Helmholtz University Junior Research Group Molecular Radiooncology
• Prof. Dr. Peter Angel: Division of Signal Transduction and Growth Control
• Prof. Dr. Hellmut Augustin: Division of Vascular Oncology and Metastasis
• Prof. Dr. Philipp Beckhove: Division of Translational Immunology
• Prof. Dr. Petra Boukamp: Division of Genetics of Skin Carcinogenesis
• Prof. Dr. Michael Boutros: Division Signaling and Functional Genomics
• Prof. Dr. Hermann Brenner: Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research
• Prof. Dr. Barbara Burwinkel: Division of Molecular Epidemiology
• PD Dr. Adelheid Cerwenka: Boveri Junior Research Group Innate Immunity
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Henri-Jaques Delecluse: Division of Pathogenesis of Virus Associated Tumors
• PD Dr. Tobias P. Dick: Division of Redox Regulation  
• Dr. Sven Diederichs: Helmholtz University Junior Research Group Molecular RNA Biology and Cancer
• Prof. Dr. Bruce Edgar: Division of Cell Growth and Proliferation
• Prof. Dr. Roland Eils: Division of Theoretical Bioinformatics
• Prof. Dr. Michael Eisenhut: Division of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry  
• Dr. Marieke Essers: Division of Stem Cells and Cancer
• Dr.Markus Feuerer: Helmholtz University Junior Research Group Immune Tolerance
• Dr. Andreas Fischer: Division of Vascular Oncology and Metastasis
• Dr. Pierre-Olivier Frappart: Emmy Noether Junior Research Group DNA Repair and CNS Diseases
• Dr. Ana J. Garcia-Sáez: Helmholtz University Junior Research Group Membrane Biophysics   
• Prof. Dr. Lutz Gissmann: Division of Genome Modifications and Carcinogenesis
• Prof. Dr. Hanno Glimm: Division of Translational Oncology   
• Prof. Dr. Hermann-Josef Gröne: Division of Cellular and Molecular Pathology 
• Prof. Dr. Ingrid Grummt: Division of Molecular Biology of the Cell II
• Prof. Dr. Uwe Haberkorn: Clinical Cooperation Unit Nuclear Medicine
• Prof. Dr. Ute Hamann: Research Group Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer
• Prof. Dr. Stefan Hell: Division of Optical Nanoscopy
• Prof. Dr. Kari Hemminki: Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology
• Prof. Dr. Harald Herrmann-Lerdon: Division of Molecular Genetics/Functional Architecture of the Cell
• Dr. Stephan Herzig: Division of Molecular Metabolic Control
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Höfer: Division of Theoretical Systems Biology
• PD. Dr. Ingrid Hoffmann: Research Group Mammalian Cell Cycle Control Mechanisms
• Dr. Jörg Hoheisel: Division of Functional Genome Analysis 
• Prof. Dr. Felix Hoppe-Seyler: Research Group Molecular Therapy of Virus-Associated Cancers  
• Dr. Thomas Jahn: Junior Research Group Proteostasis in Neurodegenerative Disease
• Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kaaks: Division of Cancer Epidemiology
• Prof. Dr. Ursula Klingmüller: Division of Systems Biology of Signal Transduction
• Prof. Dr. Annette Kopp-Schneider: Division of Biostatistics     
• Prof. Dr. Alwin Krämer: Clinical Cooperation Unit Molecular Hematology/Oncology
• Prof. Dr. Peter Krammer: Division of Immunogenetics  
• Prof. Dr. Bruno Kyewski: Division of Developmental Immunology
• Prof. Dr. Jörg Langowski: Division of Biophysics of Macromolecules
• Prof. Dr. Peter Lichter: Division of Molecular Genetics  
• Dr. Hai-Kun Liu: Junior Research Group Normal and neoplastic CNS stem cells
• Prof. Dr. Frank Lyko: Division of Epigenetics
• Prof. Dr. Ana Martin-Villalba: Division of Neurobiology of Brain Tumors
• Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Meinzer: Division of Medical and Biological Informatics
• PD Dr. Daniel Mertens: DKFZ Junior Group Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis
• Dr. Aubry Miller: Research Group Cancer Drug Development
• Dr. Michael Milsom: Division of Stem Cells and Cancer
• Prof. Dr. Hannah Monyer: Cooperational Division of Clinical Neurobiology   
• apl. Prof.  Dr. Martin Müller: Research Group Tumorvirus-Specific Vaccination Strategies  
• Prof. Dr. Christof Niehrs: Division of Molecular Embryology             
• Prof. Dr. Rienk Offringa: Division of Molecular Oncology of Gastrointestinal Tumors
• Dr. Thordur Oskarsson: Division of Stem Cells and Cancer 
• Prof. Dr. Christoph Plass: Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors
• PD. Dr. Michael Platten: Helmholtz University Young Investigator's Group Experimental Neuroimmunology
• Dr. Stefan Pfister: Molecular genetics of pediatric brain tumors
• Dr. Marc S. Raab: Max-Eder-Junior Research Group Experimental therapies for hematologic malignancies
• PD Dr. Dr. Angelika Riemer: Junior Research Group Immunotherapy and -prevention 
• Dr. Christoph Rösli: Division of Stem Cells and Cancer
• PD. Dr. Karsten Rippe: Research Group Genome Organization and Function
• Prof. Dr. Hans-Reimer Rodewald: Division of Cellular Immunology  
• Prof. Dr. Frank Rösl: Division of Viral Transformation Mechanisms 
• Prof. Dr. Jean Rommelaere: Division of Tumor Virology
• Prof. Dr. Wilfried Roth: Clinical Cooperation Unit Molecular Tumor Pathology 
• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schlegel: Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology     
• Prof. Dr. Heinz-Peter Schlemmer: Division of Radiology
• Dr. Martina Schnölzer: Research Group Functional Proteome Analysis    
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Wolfhard Semmler: Division of Medical Physics in Radiology         
• Dr. Bram Stieltjes: DKFZ Junior Group Quantitative Image-based Disease Characterization
• PD Dr. Holger Sültmann: Division of Molecular Genome Analysis
• Dr. Aurelio Teleman: Helmholtz Junior Research Group Signal Transduction in Cancer and Metabolism
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Trumpp: Division of Stem Cells and Cancer  
• Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ulrich: Division of Preventive Oncology
• PD Dr. Jochen Utikal: Clinical Cooperation Unit Dermato-Oncology 
• Prof. Dr. Andreas von Deimling: Clinical Cooperation Unit Neuropathology
• Prof. Dr. Christof von Kalle: Division of Translational Oncology  
• Prof. Dr. Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz: Clinical Cooperation Unit Applied Tumor Biology
• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wick: Clinical Cooperation Unit Neurooncology
• PD. Dr. Stefan Wiemann: Division of Molecular Genome Analysis
• Prof. Dr. Olaf Witt: Clinical Cooperation Unit Pediatric Oncology