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Scientific Prizes

For many years now, the F.R.S.-FNRS has worked in close collaboration with several individuals and organisations who want to encourage research in all scientific disciplines. There are two ways they do this. There are the scientific Prizes which reward a researcher or research team for their particularly important work in a specific field. And there are the Grants which fund the work of researchers for a specific period.

The F.R.S.-FNRS also awards five researchers every five years with the FNRS Quinquennial Prizes (Prize for Excellence). These five prestigious Prizes are crowning achievements and serve to confirm the worldwide recognition of careers of Wallonia-Brussels Federation researchers from all scientific disciplines. Learn more...

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Every year, the FNRS organises, co-organises, manages or contributes to the management of some twenty prizes, scholarships or awards, financed by private patronage (foundations, companies, etc.), for the benefit of researchers who distinguish themselves in their field*. In 2019, nearly 2.5 million euros have been awarded and supported scientific excellence.

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List of the Prizes awarded by the FNRS

Name of Prize

Amount

In recognition of

Scientific discipline

Recipient

Periodicity

De Leeuw

€75,000

Career

Fundamental natural sciences

Wallonia-Brussels Federation

Quinquennial

De Leeuw

€75,000

Career

Applied natural sciences

Wallonia-Brussels Federation

Quinquennial

Solvay

€75,000

Career

Human and social sciences

Wallonia-Brussels Federation

Quinquennial

Maisin

€75,000

Career

Fundamental biomedical sciences

Wallonia-Brussels Federation

Quinquennial

Maisin

€75,000

Career

Clinical biomedical sciences

Wallonia-Brussels Federation

Quinquennial

Gagna

€75,000

Postdoc

Incurable diseases

International

Triennial

Lambertine Lacroix

€30,000

Postdoc

A rotation between cancerology and cardiovascular diseases

Wallonia-Brussels Federation

Biennial

AstraZeneca Prize

4 x €25,000

Postdoc

A rotation of the following themes: Asthma, Oncology, Mental Disorders, Primary Care & Family Medicine, Epigenetics, Healthy Ageing, Metabolic Diseases, Immunotherapy, Bioinformatics, Cardiovascular/Metabolic Diseases, Respiratory Diseases, Neuroscience & Psychiatry, Auto-immune & Rheumatic Diseases, Infectiology...

Belgium

Annual

Oswald Vander Veken

€25,000

Postdoc

Musculoskeletal tumours

EEA + Switzerland

Triennial

Eugène Yourassowsky

€15,000

PhD

Medical microbiology and infectious diseases

Wallonia-Brussels Federation

Quadriennial

Joséphine – Charlotte

€12,500

Postdoc

Virology

Belgium

Biennial

SCK•CEN

€12,500

Postdoc

Nuclear

Belgium

Biennial

BiR&D Life & Health Sciences

€10,000

PhD

Industrial processing and interdisciplinarity

Belgium

Annual

BiR&D Sciences & Technology

€10,000

PhD

Industrial processing and interdisciplinarity

Belgium

Annual

Nokia Bell

€8,000

PhD

ICT

Belgium

Annual

McKinsey

€5,000

PhD

All disciplines

Wallonia-Brussels Federation

Annual

Antonella Karlson

€5,000

PhD

Natural sciences

Wallonia-Brussels Federation

Biennial

Applied chemistry

€4,000 

PhD

Chemical industry

Wallonia-Brussels Federation

Biennial

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