Scientific Award AstraZeneca Foundation in Zoonoses and Climate Change as Emerging Threats to Human Health

The AstraZeneca Foundation attaches great importance to promoting scientific research. On the initiative of the AstraZeneca Foundation, the FWO and the F.R.S.-FNRS will give in 2026 a scientific award in recognition of innovative scientific research related to zoonoses and climate change as emerging threats to human health.

• Prize amounting to 25,000 EURO.
• Rewards innovative scientific research on pathogen emergence, reservoirs, cross-species transmission and evolution, outbreak prediction and intervention strategies under the concept of One Health surveillance, particularly in the context of climate change and its impact on human health, including through changes in vector dissemination.
• The prize is intended to reward an established investigator on the basis of their previous work, with a perspective of future development in the same field.

• You have a PhD.
• The applicant must have obtained their first PhD degree maximum 15 years before the date of the submission deadline (possibly extended in case of eligible career breaks, see regulations).
• The award can only be given to an individual scientist from postdoctoral level onwards who is affiliated to a Belgian university, a university hospital or an eligible research institute (see regulations). Prior to the submission deadline, the applicant must have held a research position in Belgium for at least five years (in a consecutive or cumulated period).

• Submit your candidacy using the appropriate form, filled in correctly and completely (in English), on 04 May 2026 midnight (CEST) at the latest.
• Your candidacy is submitted to a jury.
• The jury selects the laureate for the prize.
• The laureate attends the awards ceremony, which will take place in the evening of 10 December 2026 at the Palace of the Academies (Brussels).