Debiopharm Group™ grants each year the Debiopharm Group Life Sciences Award(s) organised in collaboration with the EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) to encourage excellence amongst researchers in life sciences. The awards have a total value of CHF 100'000 and is currently comprised of one main Award and two junior Awards.
The main Award honours a European investigator below the age of 45 who has
The Debiopharm Group Life Sciences Awards are a tribute of Debiopharm Group™ to innovation as the key engine to medical progress, and aim at motivating young innovative European researchers in the field of life sciences. The research performed by the candidates must show therapeutic and industrial potential in life sciences; novelty and originality; as well as importance and significance in connection with targeted therapeutic fields.
The 2013 Debiopharm Group Life Sciences Awards will be presented on the occasion of the EPFL Life Science Symposium 2013 to be held 28-30 August and organised by the Global Health Institute.
This year's theme for the main Award is 'Brain Research & Neuroprosthetics'. Applications can be submitted until May 20th, 2013. Candidates must be researchers below the age of 45 who has made outstanding contributions in the area of basic or translational research. Application form and additional information can be found on this page Debiopharm Life Sciences Awards.
Applications for the two Junior Awards in cellular and molecular biology must be submitted before April 15th, 2013. For more information on the application, please visit this page Debiopharm Life Sciences Awards.
Debiopharm Group™ thanks the EPFL School of Life Sciences for its continuous support in the organisation of these Awards.
Awardees:
2012
Debiopharm Group™ Life Sciences Award granted to:
- Professor Daniel D. Pinschewer from the University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland.
Junior Debiopharm Group™ Awards granted to:
- Doctor Daan Noordermeer from the EPFL, Switzerland and
- Doctor Kelly Tan from the University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland
2011
Debiopharm Group™ Life Sciences Award granted to:
- Professor Stefano Piccolo from the University of Padua, Italy
Junior Debiopharm Group™ Awards granted to:
- Professor Etienne Meylan from the EPFL and
- Doctor Volker Busskamp from the Basel-based Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI)
2010
- Prof. Jean-Christophe Leroux, Drug Formulation & Delivery, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Professor Leroux from ETH receives the Debiopharm Life Sciences Award 2010
2009
- Dr Lluis Quintana-Murci, UP Human Evolutionary Genetics, Institut Pasteur, France
- Dr Manel Esteller, Epigenetics Laboratory at the National Cancer Center (CNIO) Madrid, Spain
Debiopharm Life Sciences Award in Epigenetic Oncology goes to Dr Manel Esteller
2007
- Dr Zoltan Nusser, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Debiopharm Life Sciences Award in Neurosciences Goes to Nusser
2006
- Dr Eduard Batlle, Institut de Recerca Biomèdica of Barcelona, Spain.
Debiopharm and EPFL honour Dr Eduard Batlle with the "Debiopharm Life Sciences Award"
