FWO - Scientific Award AstraZeneca Foundation - New multidisciplinary approaches to tackle the obesity pandemic 2024

Research

Funding organisation:

Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen

What?

The AstraZeneca Foundation attaches great importance to promoting scientific research. On the initiative of the AstraZeneca Foundation, the FWO and F.R.S.-FNRS will give in 2024 a scientific award in recognition of innovative scientific research leading to novel insights in new multidisciplinary approaches to tackle the obesity pandemic.

• Prize amounting to 25,000 EURO.
• Rewards innovative scientific research leading to novel insights in new multidisciplinary approaches to tackle the obesity pandemic.
• The prize is intended to reward an established investigator on the basis of his/her previous work, with a perspective of future development in the same field.

Who?

• You have a PhD.
• The applicant must have obtained his/her first PhD degree maximum 15 years before the date of the sumbission deadline (possible extended in case of eligible career breaks, see regulations).
• The prize can only be given to an individual scientist from postdoctoral level onwards who is affiliated to a Belgian university or university hospital. Prior to the submission deadline, the applicant must have held a research position in Belgium for at least five years (in a consecutive or cumulated period). 

Application?

• Submit your candidacy using the appropriate form, filled in correctly and completely (in English), on 10 June 2024 midnight at the latest.
• Your candidacy is submitted to a jury.
• The jury selects the laureate for the prize.

Application form

Regulations?

Regulations Scientific Award AstraZeneca Foundation – New multidisciplinary approaches to tackle the obesity pandemic 2024

More information?

More information can be found on the website of FWO.

Deadline

10.06.2024

Contact Hasselt University?

E-mail carine.ulenaers@uhasselt.be

Tel. +3211268950