Scientific Award AstraZeneca Foundation in Innovative applications of AI to the benefit of patients’ health

The AstraZeneca Foundation attaches great importance to promoting scientific research. On the initiative of the AstraZeneca Foundation, the FWO and F.R.S.-FNRS will give in 2025 a scientific award in recognition of innovative scientific research leading to innovative applications of AI to the benefit of patients’ health.

• Prize amounting to 25,000 EURO.
• Rewards innovative scientific research focused on research advancements in artificial intelligence that significantly enhance patient care, treatment outcomes, and healthcare delivery, including but not limited to innovative solutions that utilize AI to personalize medicine, optimize medical processes, or predict and manage health conditions.
• The prize is intended to reward an established investigator on the basis of his/her previous work, with a perspective of future development in the same field.

• You have a PhD.
• The applicant must have obtained his/her 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 or university hospital. 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 09 June 2025 midnight CEST at the latest.
• Your candidacy is submitted to a jury.
• The jury selects one laureate for the prize.