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Opening of the McKinsey & Company Scientific Award 2025 call

Thanks to the patronage of McKinsey & Company, the FNRS will grant, in 2025, the McKinsey & Company Scientific Award to a researcher who can demonstrate the societal and economic relevance OR the practical applicability of his/her doctoral thesis.

 

McKinsey & Company Scientific Award 2025

The doctoral thesis must pertain to one of the following fields:

  • Exact sciences
  • Applied sciences
  • Social, economic or management sciences
  • Biomedical sciences

Amount: 5.000 € for personal use.

Eligible candidates

  • The PhD thesis must have been publicly defended in 2024 in a university of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels or the Royal Military Academy.
  • Candidates must be affiliated to a recognized university (within or outside the Federation Wallonia-Brussels) at the deadline of the call (cf. below).
  • The thesis may not have been previously rewarded, except by an honorary Award.
  • McKinsey & Company staff are not eligible to the Award.

 

Call timeline

  • Opening of the call: December 2, 2024
  • Deadline of the call: March 3, 2025
  • Panel meeting: June 2025

 

How to apply ?

Applications, written in English, must be sent electronically to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. on March 3, 2025 (midnight Brussels time), at the latest.
 
The requested documents are:

  • The application form duly completed and signed.
  • A detailled curriculum vitae.
  • A complete list of publications.
  • An electronic version of the thesis.

 
The complete regulations of the Award are available here.

The list of the previous laureates is available here.

Questions about the Award should be adressed via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Opening of the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Award (EDMA) 2025 call

Thanks to the generous patronage of a private donator, the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS) and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) will grant in 2025 an Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Award.

EDMA 2025

  • Rewards a particularly deserving researcher for an original fundamental or translational contribution in the fields of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism or Nutrition. 
  • The research can be based on any model or experimental approach (functional, morphological, genetic, pharmacological, epidemiological) but cannot pertain to cancerous pathologies.
  • The Award amounts to 30.000€. Half of this amount will be allocated to the laureate personally; the other half will be attributed to the laureate's laboratory.
  • Joint application are not allowed.

Eligible candidates

  • Be affiliated to a Belgian university or university hospital and currently conduct a research project in the field of the Award.
  • Hold a PhD in a medical or biomedical field.
  • Have a scientific seniority of minimum PhD +6 years and maximum PhD +16 years at the deadline of the call.
  • Have worked in a medical/biomedical context in Belgium at least 5 years in total, including the 3 years directly preceding the deadline of the call.
  • Not have received an Award of an amount equal or superior to 20.000€ for the work submitted in the last 3 years (prior to the deadline of the call).
  • Previous laureates of the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Award are not eligible.

Call timeline

  • Opening of the call: December 2nd, 2024
  • Deadline of the call: March 3rd, 2025
  • Panel meeting: End of June 2025

How to apply ?

Applications, written in English, must be sent electronically to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. on March 3rd, 2025 (Brussels time), at the latest.
 
The requested documents are :

  • The application form duly completed and signed.
  • A detailled curriculum vitae.
  • A complete list of publications.

The full regulations of the Award are available here. 

The list of the previous laureates is available here.

Questions about the Award should be adressed via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

EDMA

Benoit Vanhollebeke (ULB), laureate of the 6th Pierre & Simone Clerdent Foundation Triennial Award

Prof. Benoit Vanhollebeke, Director of the Neurovascular Signaling Laboratory at ULB and Investigator at the WEL Research Institute, is the 2024 laureate of the Pierre & Simone Clerdent Foundation Triennial Award, awarded by the FNRS.

The Award, worth 400,000 euros, provides three years' support for a medical research project in the field of human neurology carried out by a university team based in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.

The research carried out by Prof. Benoit Vanhollebeke and his team focuses on the brain's blood vessels, which form the blood-brain barrier that protects the brain from toxic blood components. This barrier, which is established during embryonic development, plays an important role in the progression of many neurological diseases.

The Simone & Pierre Clerdent Fondation Award 2024 will be awarded to Pr Benoit Vanhollebeke on Thursday November 14, 2024.

The press release in PDF format

Clerdent EN

 

 

Start of autumn meetings of scientific committees and juries

The Scientific Committees and Panels began meeting this week. 15 ‘Credits & Projects’ and IISN scientific committees, 41 FRIA juries and 8 FRESH juries are meeting until 14 November to assess the applications.

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The Gagna & Van Heck International Prize for incurable diseases awarded to Laurence Boon and Miikka Vikkula (UCLouvain) !

The Gagna & Van Heck International Prize for incurable diseases, a worldwide award presented every three years by the FNRS, has been presented for the first time to a Belgian team. Laurence Boon (Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc de Bruxelles, UCLouvain) and Miikka Vikkula (Institut de Duve, UCLouvain) were rewarded for their contribution to the complex spectrum of orphan vascular diseases, leading to significant therapeutic advancements and practical solutions.  

They have been united in work and life for 30 years, represent an example of biomedical vocation and work tirelessly to improve the daily lives of patients suffering from poorly understood diseases.

Miikka Vikkula is Professor of Genetics at UCLouvain's Institut de Duve and Investigator at the WEL Research Institute; Laurence Boon is Professor, Clinical Physician and Coordinator of the Vascular Malformations Center at Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc in Brussels (UCLouvain). 

Together, they have been rewarded for their contribution to a better understanding of orphan vascular diseases, and for the significant therapeutic advances they have made.

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Opening of the WEL-T Investigator Programme 2024 call !

The FRFS and the WEL Research Institute have opened the second “WEL-T Investigator Programme” call 

This call is funded by the Walloon region, for strategic research of excellence in engineering, chemistry and physics with a view to developing breakthrough innovations for industrial applications aimed at sustainable transition.  This programme is open to researchers from the universities of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation who are either established (Advanced grants, max. €350,000/year) or at the beginning of their career (Starting grants, max. €200,000/year).

More info... 

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