The ISID-LEO Foundation Award 2026 – Region EMEA
Grantee: Ievgenia Pastushenko, Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
Amount: USD 100,000
Grant category: LEO Foundation Awards
Year: 2026
Geography: Belgium
Professor Ievgenia Pastushenko is Professor and Director of the Laboratory at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels, Belgium.
She received the prestigious ISID-LEO Foundation Award in Region EMEA during the 55th Annual ESDR Meeting in Heidelberg, Germany. The award recognizes Professor Pastushenko for her outstanding research achievements and contributions to skin research.
The ISID-LEO Foundation Award – worth USD 100,000 – recognizes outstanding young researchers and scientists from around the world whose work represents an extraordinary contribution to skin research and has the potential to pave the way for new and improved treatments for skin diseases.
The LEO Foundation Award 2022 – Region EMEA
Grantee: Dr. Esther Hoste, Assistant Professor, Ghent University
Amount: USD 100,000
Grant category: LEO Foundation Awards
Year: 2022
Geography: Belgium
Dr. Esther Hoste is Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology at Ghent University, Belgium.
She receives the award for her impressive ability to produce research at the forefront of our understanding of skin biology and as a recognition of her exemplary leadership to her team and to future generations of researchers. Esther Hoste is a talent that has already demonstrated an extensive track record of providing advances to our understanding of the skin and its diseases – with important findings on the mechanisms behind wound healing, skin regeneration, skin inflammation and skin tumor formation published by herself and her lab.