General laboratory funding is provided by the Medical Faculty Mannheim of Heidelberg University.

In addition we have received generous funding for specific projects from:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

• SFB 1213 "Pulmonary Hypertension and Cor Pulmonale"
• SFB/Transregio 81 "Chromatin Changes in Differentiation and Malignancies"
• Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System (ECCPS)
• Emmy Noether Programme, Project "The role of Isl1-mediated transcriptional regulation and asymmetric cell division in fate decisions of cardiac progenitor cells"

Hessen State Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts

• LOEWE Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
• LOEWE Center "Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC)"

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

• "Juniorverbünde in der Systemmedizin": DeCaRe

Stiftung experimentelle Biomedizin

• Peter Hans Hofschneider Endowed Professorship Award

Behrens-Weise-Stiftung

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst

• PhD fellowships