Fondation Mérieux
Roots for life
Scientific Fellowships
Helping scientists working on infectious diseases
Fondation Mérieux scientific fellowship programme is a grant programme established to promote exchanges and collaboration among researchers from the developed and developing world, throughout the world, by enabling infectious diseases researchers in the formative stage of their career to extend their research experience in a research institution during their post-university training.
Fellowship grants designed to support:
- young scientists from emerging nations who want to collaborate with an institution in a developed country;
- young scientists from developed countries who want to collaborate with an institution in an emerging country.
Priority is given to research projects that focus on:
- improving access to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases such as HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, hepatitis and other infectious diseases that affect developing countries;
- improving the health of populations in these countries by providing concrete and relevant solutions;
- the best scientific understanding of those infectious diseases that mostly affect the emerging nations.
A global budget of 40 000 euros is allocated each year by Fondation Mérieux to this programme.
The projects retained can receive a maximum grant of 5 000 euros.
The submission deadline is 1 March for the April session and 1 September for the October session each year, (an award notification will be sent to the recipients at the end of April for the March session and the end of October for the September session).
Download the scientific fellowship application procedure [9 Kb PDF]
