PORTO, Portugal, November 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --
The BIAL Foundation has announced the launch of the inaugural
BIAL Award in Biomedicine. Worth €300,000, the new award
will recognise high quality, scientifically relevant research in
the biomedical field published as of 1st January
2010. The award will be granted bi-annually from 2019
onwards.
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The BIAL Foundation was created in Portugal in 1994, to foster scientific study
through a series of awards and grants. Since its establishment, the
Foundation has recognised nearly 100 written works through its
awards programme and supported 614 projects through its grants.
The BIAL Award in Biomedicine has been created to extend
the scope of the BIAL Foundation's activity and to acknowledge the
most notable and relevant discoveries in that field around the
world. The award has the support of the President of the Portuguese
Republic, the Council of Rectors of the Portuguese Universities and
the European Medical Association.
The Award winner will be selected by an independent jury made up
of 14 leading international scientific experts. This will include
two members appointed by the European Research Council, two by the
European Medical Association, two by the Council of Rectors of the
Portuguese Universities, and two from prominent international
scientific journals, The Lancet and the Journal of
the American Medical Association (JAMA). Two
further members have been chosen from the scientific board of the
BIAL Foundation and two others are previous winners of BIAL Awards.
To be considered for the award, scientific works must be
nominated by voting members of the jury, members of the scientific
board of the BIAL Foundation, previous BIAL Award winners or
scientific societies. The jury may also invite other scientific
institutions to submit proposals. Those interested in consideration
for the award should apply via these channels. Entries will be
accepted from 1st January
2019, with a deadline of 30th June 2019. The award winner will be announced in
the first quarter of 2020.
"This novel and unique award will recognize the most
outstanding and relevant discoveries made in the biomedical
field in recent years. The broad scope
of the award will make judging an exciting and
challenging process and it is one that we are all looking
forward to," said Jury President Professor Fernando Lopes da Silva, Emeritus Professor of
the University of Amsterdam and
scientific coordinator of the Biomedical Engineering programme at
the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.
"The BIAL Foundation is delighted to be
launching this award which epitomises our commitment to
recognising and enhancing academic and clinical research
published in recent years. Our jury
comprises leading experts in their fields, who we are
confident will thoroughly scrutinize the
entries, to bestow the €300,000 award on a suitably
deserving piece of research," said Luís Portela, Founder
and Chair of the BIAL Foundation.
To find out more about the BIAL Award in
Biomedicine 2019 or the work of the BIAL Foundation, click
here.
BIAL Foundation
The BIAL Foundation was created in 1994 by BIAL in conjunction
with the Council of Rectors of the Portuguese Universities, with
the aim of fostering the scientific study of the human being from
both physical and spiritual perspectives.
Today, the Foundation is an institution of reference among the
international scientific community, particularly in the field of
neuroscience research.
Among its activities, the Foundation manages Awards, promoting
the research in medical and biomedical areas, and supports
scientific research projects for the neurophysiological and mental
study of the human being.
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