Biomedicum Helsinki Foundation Grants
Welcome! You can apply for grants and submit reports through this grant system. More information on grants, including evaluation criteria, conditions, application times, and previous grants is available on our grant pages or by e-mail at saatio@biomedicum.fi. The call schedules are listed on the right.
The grants we provide in short:
1. Startup grants are intended to make it easier to take on a research project without having to commit to a career in research. The grantee can be e.g. an experienced clinician or a medical/dentistry/biology/data science student following on research project executed as part of the studies.
2. Young Investigator's grants are to support graduate students to work towards their doctoral degree.
3. Clinical Investigator Post-doctoral grants are provided to support international post-doctoral training for clinicians.
The Biomedicum Helsinki Foundation supports high-quality research in clinical medicine and university level research in health sciences.The Foundation has supported especially young scientists at a total level of about 200 000 €/year. The grants are awarded at the Biomedicum Helsinki Day event in the fall. Grants may also be awarded from the following specific funds within the Foundation: Borreliosis Fund, Timo Lehtonen Urology fund, Brain Cancer Fund, Marketta Helenius Fund for Health Sciences,Cardiovascular Fund, Neurological and Cerebrovascular Disorder Fund or from the Cancer and Cell Based Cancer Research Fund. The Borreliosis Fund is to support research not only for Borrelia research but also other tick-borne diseases and to symptoms following these diseases as well as to increasing awareness of how to prevent and treat these diseases.
NEW FOR THE YEAR 2025: The Borreliosis Fund at Biomedicum Helsinki Foundation supports research of Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases and their symptoms. For the call of 2025 The Foundation has decided to extend the scope of the Borreliosis Fund to include medical research of other zoonoses as well.
Zoonoses are diseases that are transmitted between humans and animals and organisms. Climate-related changes are estimated to affect the prevalence of several zoonoses in Finland. Climate change will affect the distribution of disease-carrying animals, periods of activity, population size, and the efficiency of species and site-to-site transmission of pathogens through warming and increased precipitation, among other things. There is a possibility of new zoonoses spreading to Finland as well.
Vector-borne diseases are bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases. They are transmitted to humans through a vector organism, for example when an infected mosquito bites or a tick bites. In Finland, the most important vector-borne diseases are Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), which are transmitted by ticks. The mosquito-borne diseases of public health importance in Finland are pogostan and tularaemia.
The Fund supports medical research on zoonoses, including research on the zoonotic nature of infections, species transmission and the genetic changes required, but does not support research on food hygiene.
NOTE: The instructions for applying and the application form are provided only in English, but it is also possible to apply also in Finnish.
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