Appel à candidatures - Scientific Awards AstraZeneca Foundation 2021

Scientific Awards AstraZeneca Foundation 2021

The FNRS and the FWO will grant in 2021 the Scientific Awards AstraZeneca Foundation which reward established investigators in 3 different topics in Life & Health Sciences.

Scientific Awards AstraZeneca Foundation

• These 3 Awards are granted on the initiative of the AstraZeneca Foundation.

• Amount : 25.000 €/Award. Half of the amount is allocated personally to the laureate, the other half is allocated to the laureate's laboratory.

• Reward established investigators on the basis of their previous work, with a perspective of future development in the same field.

Eligible topics

One Award will be attributed in each of the following topics:

• Gene editing as a therapeutic approach.

• Understanding the heterogeneity of the human immune response to infectious agents.

• New strategies in regenerative medicine.

Eligibility criteria

• ​Candidates should be active in the above mentioned fields of research, with both ongoing work related to the focus of the Awards and future prospects.

• The Awards can only be given to individual scientists from postdoctoral level onwards who are affiliated to a Belgian university or university hospital.

• Candidates can have the Belgian or foreign nationality on the condition that they have been doing research activities in Belgium in a biomedical context for at least five years prior to the submission deadline.

• Candidates cannot have reached the age of 45 on the date of the submission deadline.

• Personnel of the AstraZeneca Foundation or affiliated to the AstraZeneca Foundation are not eligible for the Awards.

• Candidates may not have received an Award for the work submitted with the same amount (or higher) in the last 3 years (prior to the deadline of the call).

• Candidates can only apply to one AstraZeneca Award. 

How to apply

Applications, written in English, must be sent electronically to prix@frs-fnrs.be on July 12, 2021 at the latest. 

The requested documents are :

• The application form pertaining to the Award you wish to apply to (see below)
• A detailled scientific curriculum vitae
• A list of publications 

Regulations

• Gene Editing Award 
• Humane Immune Response Award 
• Regenerative Medicine Award

Application forms

• Gene Editing Award
• Humane Immune Response Award 
• Regenerative Medicine Award

For more information contact:

Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS

Rue d'Egmont, 5 - 1000 Bruxelles

Tel.: +32(0)2 504 92 40

prix@frs-fnrs.be