One of the most prestigious awards in medical research in Europe BIAL Foundation opens applications to the 15th edition of BIAL Award 340 thousand Euro to award medical research   BIAL Foundation has just opened applications to the 15th edition of BIAL Award, one of the most prestigious awards of scientific research in the area of medicine in all Europe. With a total amount of 340 thousand Euros, the BIAL Award shares the basic and the clinical research by two prizes: the "BIAL Merit Award in Medical Sciences" and the "BIAL Award in Clinical Medicine". The "BIAL Merit Award in Medical Sciences" is worth 200 thousand Euro and rewards works of high quality and scientific relevance. The "BIAL Award in Clinical Medicine" with the value of 100 thousand Euros is designed to distinguish a freely chosen topic in clinical practice. In this edition the screening committee may select up to four works with Honourable Mentions, worth 10 thousand Euros each. In addition to the monetary value, the BIAL Award includes also the publication of an exclusive edition of ten thousand copies of the winning work of the "BIAL Award in Clinical Medicine", along with some of the other awarded works, which will be distributed to health professionals, free of charge   BIAL Award 2012 Screening Committee   • Chairman: Professor António de Sousa Pereira • Prof. Miguel Castelo-Branco - Faculty of Health Sciences - U. Beira Interior • Prof. Maria João Marques Gomes - Faculty of Medical Sciences - U. Nova de Lisboa • Prof. Adelino Leite Moreira - Faculty of Medicine - U. Porto • Prof. António Martins da Silva - Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences, U. Porto • Prof. Luís Providência - Faculty of Medicine - U. Coimbra • Prof. Nuno Sousa - School of Health Sciences - U. Minho • Prof. Rui Victorino - Faculty of Medicine, U. Lisboa   To know more about BIAL Award DOWNLOAD HERE THE BIAL AWARD REGULATION Taking place every two years, the BIAL Award was established in 1984 to reward and publish works of major impact in medical research. Since its inception the BIAL Award has analysed 518 works, has mobilized 1156 researchers, doctors and scientists, and has distinguished 227 authors (87 prize-winning works). Among the awarded works 32 were published and distributed free of charge to health professionals in a total amount of almost 300.000 copies.   In the BIAL Award 2010 edition… Vladimir Hachinski, Professor of Neurology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada was the winner of the BIAL Award 2010 with the work "The long fuse: silent strokes and insidious Alzheimer's disease"
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