FWO - Scientific Award AstraZeneca Foundation in Harnessing stem cell models and organoids for disease discovery and therapeutics 2025

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 2025 a scientific award in recognition of innovative scientific research harnessing stem cell models and organoids for disease discovery and therapeutics.

• Prize amounting to 25,000 EURO.
• Rewards innovative scientific research in the context of the use of stem cell technologies and organoids to advance our understanding of diseases and develop novel treatments. This includes research that explores how these biological models can simulate human disease conditions, enabling discoveries in disease mechanisms and facilitating the development of effective therapies.
• 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 (which you can find on the FWO website), filled in correctly and completely (in English), on 9 June 2025 midnight at the latest.
• Your candidacy is submitted to a jury.
• The jury selects the laureate for the prize.

Regulations?

The regulations can be found on the FWO website.

More information?

More information can be found on the website of FWO.

Always contact research@uhasselt.be if you want to apply.

Deadline

09.06.2025

Contact Hasselt University?

E-mail carine.ulenaers@uhasselt.be

Tel. +3211268950