Awards Funding
Six outstanding researchers receive the first Helmholtz Inter-national Fellow Awards
The association has launched the Helmholtz International Fellow Award with the aim of enhancing existing cooperation between Helmholtz Centres and…
What makes our brains so flexible – Bernstein Award 2012 for Tim Vogels
With up to 1.25 million euros, it is one of the most highly remunerated award for young scientists worldwide. The award enables outstanding young researchers…
British Geneticist Receives Half Million Pound Prize
750.000 Swiss Francs (approx. EUR 620.000, USD 790.000, GBP 500.000) for each of the four subjects.Half of the amount must be destined by the winners to…
Carl Zeiss Foundation supports interdisciplinary research consortium "Chemical BioMedicine"
The new interdisciplinary research consortium “Chemical BioMedicine” (ChemBioMed) seeks to extract new materials from natural sources, such as fungi and…
The Golden Neuron 2012: 1st Valentino Braitenberg Award for the Israeli neuroscientist Moshe Abeles
Moshe Abeles research focuses on the functional circuits in the cerebral cortex. His books on this subject have profoundly influenced many neuroscientists….
Promotion of young scientists in ageing research
The aim of “IMPRS-Age”, the new graduate school, is to train and promote talented junior scientists. While working for their doctorates, young men and women…