| 2015-2016 | Fellowship for a Project with the Center for the Human Rights of Children, LUC, on unaccompanied children migrating to the US – Ethics and Catholic Church Responses. |
| 2010 – 2015 | Intramural grants Loyola University Chicago for several of the McCormick Events. |
| 2011 – present | Grant by the Diocese of Limburg/Germany for the International Project Medical Ethics in Health Care Chaplaincy. |
| 2010 | Grant for International Exchange of US-German Task Force in Medical Ethics in Health Care Chaplaincy, including grant to organize an international conference on “Religious Pluralism” (German Research Foundation). |
| 2008 | Special grant for the development of the initiative of Ethics in Economics, University of Frankfurt; including grant to organize an international conference. |
| 2006 | Special grant for the development of the project on “Medical Ethics in Health Care Chaplaincy”, by the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University). |
| 2006 | Deutsche Bank Stiftungsprofessur: Ethik und Medizin. Zum Verhältnis von Ethik, Medizin und Gerechtigkeit im 21. Jahrhundert. |
| 2004 | Special Harvard Divinity School Summer Research Grant. |
| 2002 | Heisenberg Scholarship (grant for 3-5 years, for scholars after “Habilitation”), German Science Foundation (DFG) |
| 2002 – 2005 | Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg: Feministische Ethik/Gender Ethik in den Wissenschaften. |
| 1998 | University of Tuebingen Dissertation prize. |
| 1985 | One year grant of the “Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst” for a study year at Nijmegen, NL. |
