The FNRS is launching a brand new call: an Audacious Medical Grant call in the field of paediatric diseases. This funding is made possible by private sponsorship.

Description of the instrument

• AMG-Pediatrics funding is intended for a single, eligible promoter from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles to carry out a medical or biomedical research project that is original and daring in nature, but which does not find support in traditional funding channels due to a lack of preliminary data, the absence of previous work or an unusual methodology (inter-university projects will not be supported under this call).
• Duration of funding: 24 months maximum.
• Amount of funding: maximum 120,000 euros.
• Eligible costs: personnel, operating costs, equipment (flexibility will be allowed between these different categories of costs). 

Scientific scope

• The scientific scope will take into consideration all pathologies affecting paediatric or foetal patients/subjects, including infectious diseases and vaccinology, immune deficiencies, cardiovascular, respiratory and metabolic diseases, congenital, developmental, neurological and psychiatric disorders, cancers, etc.
• All approaches will be eligible (biomedical research, clinical research, translational research, epidemiological research, public health, modelling, etc.).
• The projects presented should lead to:
  • a better understanding of a paediatric disease,
  • and/or the development of new therapeutic approaches/tools/techniques,
  • and/or improved prevention or detection of paediatric diseases.

Closure of the call : Thursday 10th July at 2 p.m.

See the mini-guide.