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EACR - Mark Foundation - Pezcoller Foundation Rising Star Award

Open to EACR members with an unfunded Score ‘A’ cancer-related project from the 2023 ERC Starting Grant calls.

The awardee will receive funding of up to €100.000 to begin their project. Institutional overheads of 10% will be added to this amount.
The award is intended to enable the progression of excellent cancer research by bridging the period before re-submission to the ERC. The awardee will be invited to accept their award, and to give a talk at the EACR Annual Congress (Rotterdam, NL, 10-13 June 2024). 

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
FOR THE 2024 AWARD: CLOSED
Winner will be announced on 13/12/2023

 

Applicants must have an unfunded Score ‘A’ cancer-related project from the 2023 ERC Starting Grant calls. The ERC defines Score 'A' as "Fully meets the ERC excellence criterion and is recommended for funding if sufficient funds are available".
Download the Terms and Conditions

How to apply
Please email your completed application form and the below accompanying documents as a single PDF to laura.kendrick@eacr.org. Applicants can expect to hear the result of the evaluation by 15 November 2023.

Documents to send:

  1. Completed Application Form
  2. Concise curriculum vitae (CV) [1 page maximum]
  3. A copy of your ‘B1’ ERC Starting Grant application 
  4. Confirmation of your unfunded 2023 Score ‘A’ cancer-related project
For more info visit EACR

The winner of the 2023 EACR-Mark Foundation-Pezcoller Foundation Rising Star Award dr Cortés-Ciriano

The winner of the first EACR - Mark Foundation - Pezcoller Foundation Rising Star 2023 is dr Isidro 
Cortés-Ciriano, group leader at EMBL-EBI, Cambridge (UK)

DISCOVER Isidro Cortés-Ciriano
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