Stiftung Charité offers a wide range of funding programs to attract exciting personalities and renowned researchers for the life sciences in Berlin – both permanent recruitments and the temporary integration of visiting scientists. With the Visiting Fellows, Stiftung Charité provides funding for established or leading researchers from abroad or from other locations in Germany to stay in Berlin at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (including Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) and German Heart Center Berlin (DHZC)) or at Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) temporarily and, optionally, to set up their own research group. With their experience and expertise as well as their research ideas, the Visiting Fellows provide important impulses for the Berlin life sciences ecosystem. In this way, Stiftung Charité would like to contribute both to the strengthening and to the international and national interconnectivity of the Berlin life sciences field. Additionally, with regard to the Visiting Fellows, Stiftung Charité would like to foster diversity at the location, in particular with regard to gender, origin and age.