The Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) on Thursday announced two scholarships in the amount of 800 000 euros for projects in the area of life sciences, which can be awarded to researchers working in a Portuguese institution, not profitable. One scholarship will be given to theoretical research and one for applied research.
The initiative “aims to sustain, deepen and internationalize the national research and, consequently, the Portuguese economy,” reads the statement from FLAD. The opening of applications begins on 22 September and ends on 20 October. The winning project, one in theoretical research and in other applied research, will be announced on December 15. The funding will be given over three or four years and projects will be evaluated during this time.
The bag is called FLAD Life Science in 2020 and will open applications biannually until 2020 ” This contributes greatly towards the internationalization of national knowledge, especially the North American market, one of the founding mothers, “said Vasco Rato, president of FLAD, quoted in the statement, adding that the winning projects will seek to” reduce to practice, diseases that are common in Portugal. “
The jury of the scholarships will be chaired by Maria Manuel Mota, researcher and Person 2013 Award, Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM), and will also feature the scientist Rui Costa, Program of the Champalimaud Foundation Neuroscience, and Sangeeta Bhatia, biomedical engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Both IMM researchers as the Champalimaud Foundation or MIT may not apply to scholarships for conflict of interest with jury members.
Some of the criteria for evaluating projects in the “relevance to health human, scientific merit of the design and conduct of the project, the historic excellence of researchers, “the statement said.
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