Young biomedical researchers to receive new funding award
The Louis-Jeantet Foundation has announced the launch of a new award to go to outstanding young researchers in the field of biomedicine. As of 2010, the Foundation will award a 'Louis-Jeantet Young Investigator Career Award' to promising young independent researchers in the biomedical field, who have been supported for at least two years by the 'Starting Independent Research Grant' programme of the newly launched European Research Council (ERC). The overall aim of the award is to contribute to the stimulus for pioneering research in Europe. 'This cooperation with the European Research Council will enable the Foundation to extend its activities by supporting highly promising independent investigators at the beginning of their career,' said Professor Bernard C. Rossier, the secretary of the Scientific Committee of the Louis-Jeantet Fondation. In addition to recognising the performance of researchers, the award will seek to help the winners move from the initial to the advanced stage of their careers. The award will be a personal prize of € 50,000 and a research grant of € 400,000. The Foundation hopes the initiative will contribute to encouraging the world's most outstanding next-generation biomedical researchers to establish themselves and remain in Europe. Since its inception in 1986, the Swiss Louis-Jeantet Foundation has awarded an annual scientific prize, the 'Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine', to established and active investigators of high international calibre working in Europe. A total of 64 scientists have benefited from prize money amounting to € 27 million.
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