The Portuguese Medical Association and the BIAL Foundation are promoting the second edition of the Maria de Sousa Award, launched in 2020 to honour the memory of the physician and great researcher Maria de Sousa, a victim of Covid-19.
The Maria de Sousa Award aims to award and support young Portuguese scientific researchers, aged 35 or under, residing in Portugal or abroad, with scientific projects in the area of Health Sciences, including a mandatory internship in an international center of excellence.
In total, the award will distribute up to €150.000 to a maximum of five winners, an increase of €25.000 compared to the first edition.
Applications close on May 31 and must be submitted individually. Applications by groups of researchers are not accepted.
Neuroscientist Rui Costa is once again the President of the Jury and recalls that “this Award continues the work of scientist Maria de Sousa in building a school without borders, a school of new Portuguese scientists connected to the rest of the world and that will be the foundation of a society where knowledge creates value and changes the way we live.”
In addition to Rui Costa, the jury is composed of researchers who were very close to Maria de Sousa: Maria do Carmo Fonseca, president of the Institute of Molecular Medicine (iMM) of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, Graça Porto, group leader for research on the biology of iron at the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health Sciences (i3S) of the University of Porto, Miguel Castelo-Branco, director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research (CIBIT) at the University of Coimbra, and Joana Palha, full professor at the School of Medicine of the University of Minho.
The regulation, application form and more information about this edition are available here.
