Whatever you would like to know about the doctoral education at the The International Max Planck Research School, Erwin Neher and Steffen Burkhardt will be able to tell you. At the HRK conference on doctoral training in Europe and North America they presented the School’s twin PhD programmes in molecular biology and neurosciences. Not only do they present the School’s mission goals, governance structures and its network of collaboration institutions; also, they explain the curricula of the PhD programmes and list a number of funding opportunities for students. An interesting add-on are the statistics they provide about student applications, application-admission ratios as well as career pathways of former students.