The FNRS Board of Directors has decided to award 4 Additional Research Credits (ARC) in oncology from the Suzanne Duschene, Serge Rousseau and Docteur Jean Gérard Funds managed by the King Baudouin Foundation. These ARC make it possible to allocate an additional €15,000 to FNRS Postodoctoral researchers to cover their operating costs throughout their term of office.

The recipients are :

• Arezoo Dadashzadeh (UCLouvain) for her project : Engineering fertility: a novel strategy for restoring endocrine and reproductive functions in cancer patients.
• Alexandra Degraeve (UCLouvain) for her project : Cachexia and gut microbiome: triggering factors for phenoconversion and drug toxicity in cancer?
• Céline Maquet (ULiège) for her project : Targeting Activation of CD4 T cells by engineered DCs as Innovative Cancer therapy.
• Alizée Vercauteren Drubbel (ULB) for her project : Unraveling the molecular mechanisms driving columnar metaplasia and cancer development from squamous foregut progenitors in vivo.

These prestigious prizes, awarded every five years by the FNRS, are intended to confirm the international recognition and crown the careers of researchers from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, in all scientific disciplines.

Following an assessment by 6 independent international juries made up of some thirty leading scientists, the FNRS Board of Directors has just made official the list of prize-winning scientists.

• The Basic Exact Sciences Prize (Dr. A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart Prize) is awarded to Nicolas Cerf, Professor of Quantum Mechanics and Information Theory and Director of the Centre for Quantum Information and Computing at ULB.
• The Applied Exact Sciences Prize (Dr. A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart Prize) goes to François-Xavier Standaert, FNRS Research Director in the Crypto Group at UCLouvain.
•  The Basic Biomedical Sciences Prize (Prix Joseph Maisin) goes toNathalie Delzenne, Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, researcher at the Louvain Drug Research Institute at UCLouvain.
•  The Clinical Biomedical Sciences Prize (Prix Joseph Maisin) goes toPeter Stärkel, Professor and Head of Clinic at UCLouvain.
•  The Social Sciences Prize (Ernest-John Solvay Prize) is awarded toJean-Marie Baland, Professor in the Department of Economics and member of the Development Economics Research Centre at UNamur.
•  The Human Sciences Prize (Ernest-John Solvay Prize) is awarded toGodefroid de Callataÿ, Professor and researcher at the Institute of Civilisations, Arts and Letters (INCAL) at UCLouvain.

See the press release. 

The prize-giving ceremony will take place on November 24^th, 2025, at Bozar, along with the FWO's Excellentieprijzen.

The FRIA call is open on e-space

• Mini-guide FRIA Call 2025
• Rules and Regulations
• Guide to FRIA Juries
• Descriptor fields and keywords

L'appel FRESH est ouvert sur e-space 

• Mini-guide FRESH Call 2025
• Rules and Regulations
• Guide to FRESH Juries
• Descriptor fields and keywords

The FNRS Board of Directors awarded 4 AMG-Onco on this July 1^st.

This funding, made possible by private sponsorship, is intended to support research projects that are original and daring but which do not find support in traditional funding channels because of a lack of preliminary data, the absence of previous work or an unusual methodology.

The AMG-ONCO is not a Télévie-dependent funding instrument, but the FNRS uses the expertise of its Scientific Commission to evaluate the projects submitted.