Award & grant opportunities
In addition to the list below, the Faculty of Medicine and the Geneva Centre for inflammation list key calls for projects.
The can also help you to find finding opportunities.
THE FOTI FUND
financial support for PHYM junior scientists
PhD students and post-doctoral fellows
Up to 500.- per year for an international scientific meeting
Condition: you must present a poster or give a talk
MA and Ambizione
Registration fee of one training course (e.g. EMBO leadership course)
Condition: send to Patrick Meraldi a 3-4 sentence e-mail explaining how this course will benefit you
AWARDS
International Birnstiel Award, for PhD students at an advanced stage of their career
LS2 Young investigator award, for PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, members of the LS2 section Physiology
3R prize from UNIGE, for researchers from UNIGE
Schläfli prize, for young scientists
Gertrude von Meissner research prize, for research projects
GENERAL GRANTS
Swiss National Science Foundation, various opportunities
ERC grants, various opportunities
Booster programme, for UNIGE PhD students
STARTER & CONFIRM grants HUG, for either translational or advanced research projects
Thorn Foundation, for young researchers
Innosuisse, for high-risk projects with strong innovation potential
Vontobel Foundation, for medical research
Boninchi Foundation, for UNIGE professors
THEMATIC GRANTS
European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes EFSD, for EASD members
Swiss Diabetes Foundation, for research projects
Geneva & Swiss Cancer League, for research projects
Worldwide cancer research, for research projects
Geneva Lung League, for research projects
Swiss 3R Competence Centre (3RCC), various opportunities
The Bow foundation, for research on GNAO1
Venture competition, for start-ups
ORD prize from Swiss Academies of Science, for innovative practices in Open Research Data
TRAVEL GRANTS
Germaine de Staël Program, for collaborations France-Switzerland
Tebu-bio grant, for conference expenses for a research using their tools