Deadline: 10 June 2024
On the initiative of the AstraZeneca Foundation, the Fund for Scientific Research-FNRS and the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) will grant, in 2024, 3 Scientific Awards to researchers from postdoctoral level onwards who are affiliated to a Belgian university or a Belgian university hospital.
Topics
One Award will be granted in each of the following topics:
- New advances in diagnosis/ treatment of monogenic rare diseases
- New multidisciplinary approaches to tackle the obesity pandemic
- Personalized medicine in cardiovascular diseases
Scientific Awards AstraZeneca Foundation 2024
- Reward established investigators on the basis of their previous work, with a perspective of future development in the same field.
- Amount: 25.000 €/Award. Half of the amount will be attributed to the laureates for personnal use, the other half will be attributed to the laureates’ laboratory.
Eligible Candidates
- Candidates should be active in the above-mentioned fields of research, with both ongoing work related to the focus of the Award and future prospects.
- Candidates must be individual scientist from postdoctoral level onwards who are affiliated to a Belgian university or a Belgian university hospital at the deadline of the call.
- Candidates must have held a research position in Belgium for at least five years (in a consecutive or cumulated period).
- Candidates must have obtained their first PhD degree maximum 15 years before the date of the submission deadline (possibly extended in case of eligible career breaks).
- Candidates may not have received an Award for the work submitted with the same amount (or higher) in the last 3 years (at the deadline of the call).
- Candidates can only apply to one AstraZeneca Award per call.
- Personnel of the AstraZeneca Foundation or affiliated to the AstraZeneca Foundation are not eligible for the Awards.
For more information, visit AstraZeneca Foundation.
