Open Access article “How to integrate patient and carer perspectives, methodological rigor, and ethics into biomedical research funding”

Co-developed with patient representatives and the Berlin Brain Institute of Health/QUEST Center for Responsible Research, the publication offers a scalable best practice blueprint for other research funding formats worldwide.

Citation: Lichtenberg H, Müller C, Lindeman H, Ali L, Minheere A, van den Eijnden M, et al. (2025) How to integrate patient and carer perspectives, methodological rigor, and ethics into biomedical research funding. PLoS Biol 23(12): e3003551. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003551

Published: December 4, 2025

Copyright: © 2025 Lichtenberg et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Lichtenberg H, Müller C, Lindeman H, Ali L, Minheere A, van den Eijnden M, et al. (2025)