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Bial Award 2010
The 14th edition of BIAL Award has just opened. This edition presents an important novelty: the increasing of the monetary value assigned to a total of 320 thousand Euros which reinforces the BIAL Award as one of the biggest prizes in health in Europe.
The BIAL Award establishes two prizes:
- BIAL Merit Award In Medical Sciences (200 thousand Euros) - designed to distinguish an intellectual written work on any freely chosen medical topic. To meet the elegibility conditions research of high quality and scientific relevance must be presented.
- BIAL Award in Clinical Medicine (100 thousand Euros) - designed to distinguish an intellectual written work on any freely chosen medical topic on clinical practice, which is of high quality and relevance. At least one of the authors must be a native physician of a Portuguese speaking country.
- Distinctions (5 thousand Euros) - the Screening Committee may choose the works deserving to be distinguished with a Distinction, up to a maximum of four
The BIAL Award also publishes an exclusive edition of ten thousand copies of the winning work in the Clinical Medicine category, along with some of the other leading entries. These are sent out to health professionals, free of charge.
The screening committee of the 14th edition of the BIAL Award consists of:
Chairman: Prof. Doutor Nuno Sousa
Voting members:
Professor Agostinho Almeida Santos (Faculty of Medicine, U. Coimbra)
Professor António Sousa Guerreiro (Faculty of Medical Sciences, U. Nova de Lisboa)
Professor Carlos Lopes (Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences, U. Porto)
Professor Henrique Barros (Faculty of Medicine, U. Porto)
Doctor Joana Palha (School of Health Sciences, U. Minho)
Professor José Manuel Calheiros (Faculty of Health Sciences, U. Beira Interior)
Professor Leonor Parreira (Faculty of Medicine, U. Lisbon)
