Apply for the LEO Foundation Awards. A boost to young talents.

The LEO Foundation Awards – worth USD 100,000 – recognize 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 award was born out of the aim of advancing the understanding and treatment of skin diseases and strengthening the pipeline of excellent dermatology researchers. It recognizes promising young talents and hopefully provides a boost to their future careers.

The award is well aligned with the Foundation’s goal of continually promoting and advancing skin research.

Since the first LEO Foundation Award in 2008, around 30 scientists have received the award.

Award application deadlines

The award is applied for in open competition.

Three awards are made each year, one in each of the regions: Americas, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) and Asia-Pacific. Each award is worth USD 100,000.

Submission period will open at least four weeks prior to each deadline.

NB: 2022 deadlines will be updated soon

Grant		Opens	Deadline
	LEO Foundation Award – Region Americas	08 Jan 2021	05 Feb 2021	Closed
The LEO Foundation Award was born out of the aim of advancing the understanding and treatment of skin diseases and strengthening the pipeline of excellent dermatology researchers. It recognises promising young talents and hopefully provides a boost to their future careers. DEADLINE: 5 Feb 2021 (midnight CET) Online application
	Research grants in open competition – round 1	05 Feb 2021	05 Mar 2021	Closed
To support the best dermatology research projects worldwide. DEADLINE: 5 March 2021 (midnight CET) Online application
	LEO Foundation Award – Region EMEA	21 May 2021	18 Jun 2021	Closed
The LEO Foundation Award was born out of the aim of advancing the understanding and treatment of skin diseases and strengthening the pipeline of excellent dermatology researchers. It recognises promising young talents and hopefully provides a boost to their future careers. DEADLINE: 18 June 2021 (midnight CET) Online application
	Research grants in open competition – round 2	02 Jun 2021	30 Jun 2021	Closed
To support the best dermatology research projects worldwide. Online application
	Research grants in open competition – round 3	10 Aug 2021	07 Sep 2021	Closed
To support the best dermatology research projects worldwide. Online application
	LEO Foundation Award – Region Asia-Pacific	13 Aug 2021	10 Sep 2021	Closed
The LEO Foundation Award was born out of the aim of advancing the understanding and treatment of skin diseases and strengthening the pipeline of excellent dermatology researchers. It recognizes promising young talents and hopefully provides a boost to their future careers. Online application

Guidance

The applicant:

Is an active scientist within skin-related research.
Is able to demonstrate scientific merits in the form of at least 5 peer-reviewed first author or co-first author publications within skin-related research.
Has his/her primary workplace within the relevant region at the time of being selected as awardee.
Is between 30 and 40 years of age at the time of being selected as awardee. Natural and reasonable career breaks such as paternity/maternity leave, military service or the like may be deducted.

Please read the application guide thoroughly and complete your application accordingly.

Application_Guide_LEO_Foundation_Awards_vJan2021-4 Application guide

Award terms and conditions

Applicants can not:

Have commercial or cosmetic/aesthetic research as his/her primary focus.
Have personal or financial ties to LEO Pharma, including involvement in e.g. sponsored studies or clinical trials at PI level.
Be an earlier recipient of a LEO Foundation Award.
Be an earlier recipient of another prize or award (personal or for research) exceeding a value of USD 50,000. Regular research grants are exempt from this requirement.

Application process

The LEO Foundation will ensure an independent and unbiased evaluation process in which all applications will be evaluated based on the same criteria and towards the same scientific level.

It will normally take approx. three months from application deadline to award decision.

If you are selected as awardee, you become a LEO Foundation Alumni and you will be requested to participate and contribute at two events within three years following your receipt of the award.

The LEO Foundation will agree on events and contributions with all awardees.

Global Review Panel

All panel members have been appointed by their respective society in region Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific.

Appointed by American Society for Investigative Dermatology (SID):

Committee member	Titles
Lisa Beck	Professor, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (USA)
Andrew Kowalczyk	Professor, Penn State Health Hershey, Pennsylvania (USA)
Sewon Kang	Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA)

Appointed by European Society for Dermatological Research (ESDR):

Committee member	Titles
Eli Sprecher	Professor, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv (Israel)
Edel O'Toole	Professor, Queen Mary University of London, London (United Kingdom)
Sabine Eming	Professor, University of Cologne, Cologne, (Germany)

Appointed by Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology (JSID):

Committee member	Titles
Cheng-Che Eric Lan	Professor, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung (Taiwan)
Hei Sung Kim	Professor, The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon (Republic of Korea)
Tatsuyoshi Kawamura	Professor, University of Yamanashi, Kofu (Japan)