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Open nominations for the BIAL Award in Biomedicine 2025 with an increased amount to €350,000
An independent . The articles should be nominated by Scientific Societies, Heads of Medical Schools, Heads of Biomedical Research Institutes, Heads of prestigious Academies, Members of the Jury, Members of the Scientific Board of the BIAL Foundation, and previous winners of the BIAL Award. Self-nominations are not allowed.
Chaired by neuroscientist Ralph Adolphs , the Jury includes 12 more members designated by the European Research Council, Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities, European Medical Association, Scientific Board of the BIAL Foundation, previous winners of the BIAL Award and editors of the British Medical Journal and the New England Journal of Medicine.
Ralph Adolphs and stresses that " ".
The chairman of the BIAL Foundation, Luís Portela, emphasises that " " and gives the example of " Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó, co-authors of the winning paper of the 2021 edition, who were later awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine".
In the latest edition, this award honoured an article published in Nature in 2019 that represents pioneering research for understanding human cancer, specifically glioblastoma, a very aggressive type of brain tumour with an average survival time of just a year and a half. The winning team was led by Varun Venkataramani , Frank Winkler , and Thomas Kuner from Heidelberg University.
More information about this edition is available here.
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