Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine 2016 (CHF 700,000)

The Louis-Jeantet Foundation invites nominations for its Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine. The deadline is February 15, 2015. The prize is awarded each year to fully active researchers whose scientific efforts are focused on biomedical research with more or less immediate practical applications for combating illnesses affecting mankind, as well as on fundamental research in the medical field. Nominations of candidates under 50 are encouraged.

The main fields of research that are promoted are physiology, biophysics, structural biology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, developmental biology and genetics. The award has notably supported outstanding work on immunology, virology, bacteriology, neurobiology and in clinical epidemiology. The prize is endowed with CHF 1.4 million. Each prize-winner receives CHF 700,000, of which CHF 625,000 are to be used for financing ongoing research and CHF 75,000 are given to the researcher personally. 

The objective of the prizes awarded by the Foundation is to encourage prize-winners to continue their research, and to make a contribution to their future work.