“The BIAL Foundation is soliciting nominations for its 2025 BIAL Award in Biomedicine. The Award recognises a single paper of empirical biomedical research of outstanding scientific quality published in a peer-reviewed journal since 2016. The Award consists of a prize of 350,000 Euro. Nominations may be submitted by an organised group of scientists, such as a university, society, academy, or research institute. The nomination group should not include individuals who contributed to the nominated work. Nominations are welcomed for works authored by scientists at any stage of their career, and from any country around the world.”
About the Award
The BIAL Award in Biomedicine, with the amount of 350.000 Euros, seeks to recognise a work published in the broad biomedical field within the last ten years, the results of which are considered of exceptional quality and scientific relevance.
Only works nominated by the voting members of the Jury, the members of the Scientific Board of the BIAL Foundation, previous BIAL award winners or Scientific Societies may be considered candidates for the BIAL Award in Biomedicine. The Jury may also invite other scientific institutions to submit nominations. Self-nominations are not allowed.
The BIAL Award in Biomedicine, which has the patronage of the President of the Portuguese Republic, the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities, and the European Medical Association, from 2019 onwards started to be attributed in odd years, alternating with the Prémio BIAL de Medicina Clínica.
BIAL Award in Biomedicine 2025 – Message from the President of the Jury
Ralph Adolphs
President of the Jury
Nominations deadline: 30 June 2025
Regulation 2025 Guide for NominatorsSubmit here your nomination for the BIAL Award in Biomedicine.
BIAL Award in Biomedicine 2025
Jury
President
Ralph Adolphs
Members
European Research Council
Sarah Bray
Nektarios Tavernarakis
Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities
Helena Canhão
Fátima Carneiro
European Medical Association
Simon Taylor-Robinson
Guglielmo Trovato
Scientific Board of the BIAL Foundation
Hugo Critchley
Menno Witter
Previous winners of the BIAL Award
Daniel Pipeleers
Peter St. George-Hyslop
Scientific Journals
Kamran Abbasi - BMJ
Eric Rubin - NEJM
Previous Editions
