Dr. Carley Stewart, from the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at Heidelberg University Hospital, has been selected to participate in the DFG Academy for Young Scientists in Medical Technology (NAMT) in Berlin. She was chosen through a competitive nationwide process that selected only 20 early-career researchers from German academic institutions. Dr. Stewart is a member of the TLRC Faculty and heads the DZL-funded junior research group Multimodal Lung Imaging.

The NAMT supports early-career scientists in developing competitive research proposals and taking the first steps toward leading their own DFG-funded projects.

This year’s academy focused on “Innovative Medical Imaging in Inflammation.” The scientific program brought together international experts in quantitative biomedical and clinical imaging and highlighted the latest advances in high-resolution microscopy, OCT, optical elastography, whole-body MRI, PET, sonography, and X-ray imaging.

During the workshop, participants presented their research ideas, discussed them with leading experts, and further refined their project concepts.

“I was very honored and pleased to be selected for this training. The personal benefit for me was enormous — both for grant writing in general and for fine-tuning my own draft proposal in particular. It was highly motivating,” says Carley Stewart.

The 11th DFG Academy for Young Scientists in Medical Technology took place in Berlin from 12 to 16 January 2026. It was organized by the BIOQIC Research Training Group (GRK2260) in collaboration with SFB1340 (Matrix-in-Vision), the Department of Radiology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and colleagues from the University of Münster (SFB1450).