National Awards from Switzerland
FRICK FOUNDATION FOR ALS RESEARCH

January 2010

The Bruno and Ilse Frick Foundation for Research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is calling for grant applications. The aim of the Foundation is to encourage basic biomedical research related to understanding the cause of ALS (100,000 CHF over 2 years). These awards are not directed to clinically related projects for patient care. There is no geographical limitation to the recipients of these grants.

Web-site: http://frick-fondation.ch

 

Applications should include:

  • Scientific abstract (not more than one page)
  • Introduction of the topic (not more than 2 pages)
  • Specific goals of the project and detailed research plan (not more than 5 pages)
  • Budget requested
  • List of other support
  • Curriculum vitae
  • List of papers published by the applicant during the past 5 years

 

A scientific report will be requested each year.

 

Please send your application by e-mail for the deadline of August 31, 2010 to:

 

Prof. A.C. Kato

President of the Scientific Advisory Board

Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland

E-mail: ann.kato@unige.ch

Please no telephone calls or faxes.

You will receive a response by December 2010.

Would you please transmit this information to all of your ALS colleagues.

Un prix pour encourager la recherche sur le cerveau !

December 2009

L’Association Vasco Sanz lance un appel aux candidatures pour décerner son prix à un travail de recherche, théorique ou appliqué, sur le cerveau.

 

L’association est née suite à la disparition tragique d’un jeune ingénieur diplômé de l’EPFL en informatique et chercheur passionné en neurosciences, entre autres lauréat d’un des Prix à l’Innovation des HUG-Genève en 2008.

 

Le but de cette association, soutenue par de nombreux donateurs, et reconnue d’utilité publique, est d’encourager la recherche et les découvertes sur le cerveau et son fonctionnement .

 

Les candidats sont invités à se rendre sur le site de l ’association pour déposer leur candidature et dossier, d’ici au 30 juin 2010. Les travaux seront jugés par le Conseil scientifique de l’Association.

 

La remise du prix d’un montant de Frs 2'000. - se fera en novembre 2010.

Research Grants of the Swiss League Against Epilepsy

October 2009

The Swiss League Against Epilepsy supports scientific projects in the field of epileptology with a grant amounting to CHF 20’000.— a year.

 

Studies about the causes and therapies of epilepsies are especially welcome.

 

Grants for postgraduate or postdoctoral programs abroad can not be given, but support for travel or accommodation expenses for short stays abroad can be offered as long as this stay is connected to a supported project in Switzerland.

 

In case the applicant already has sought support from other organizations or institutions, he should state from whom and with what result.


Deadline for application: End of March 2010

 

Please apply to:

Swiss League Against Epilepsy

Seefeldstrasse 84

P.O. Box 1084 CH 8034 Zurich

Tel. 0041 43 488 67 77

Fax 0041 43 488 67 78

Kahn Prize for Epileptology

October 2009

To support the work of young researchers in their work in all areas of epileptology, the Foundation set up by the Bank Hugo Kahn has made the sum of up to 10,000 Swiss francs available to epileptology research.

 

The prize, created in 1998, can pay for work already done or can help promising projects currently under way in specialist clinical or theoretical areas. The age limit for candidates wishing to apply is 40.

 

Candidates and applications from candidates accompanied by three copies of their file should be submitted by the end of May 2010 to:

 

Swiss League Against Epilepsy

Dr. Günter Krämer, Chairman

Seefeldstrasse 84

P. O. Box 1084

CH 8034 Zurich

Phone 041 43 488 67 77

Fax 041 43 488 77 78

info@epi.ch

 

Panel of Judges: Dr. Günter Krämer, Zurich (chairman), Prof. Dr. Paul-André Despland, Lausanne, and Prof. Dr. Theodor Landis, Geneva.

Robert-Bing Award 2010

The Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) awards every two years the Prize Robert Bing for outstanding accomplishments in the field of neurological research. The Prize Robert Bing 2010 goes to Matthew E. Larkum from the Insitute of Physiology, University of Berne, and to Thomas Nyffeler from the Clinic for Neurology, University Hospital Berne.

The Prize will be awarded at the annual meeting of the Swiss Society of Neuroscience, March 13, 2010 in Lausanne.

Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
Bing 2010 press release