The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment has decided on funding to support early-career researchers and scientific renewal through 44 new Academy Research Fellowships.
The applicant success rate was 15 per cent. The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment has decided to grant close to 30 million euros for 44 new Academy Research Fellowships. The average grant for the four-year projects comes to 670,000 euros. The funding is paid to the research organisation that manages the grant and where the research is carried out.
Academy Research Fellowship funding is intended for early-career researchers on a fast career track who have formed international networks and who are conducting scientifically high-quality and high-impact research that contributes to scientific renewal. This was the first application round where funding was allocated based on the Academy’s reform of the funding schemes available to early-career researchers.
At the University of Eastern Finland, Academy Research Fellowship funding was granted to:
Fazel Abdolahpur Monikh: Towards understanding the biological fate of sub-micron plastics: biotransformation, interaction with phagocytes and in vivo tests in zebrafish, 686,500 euros
Lukas Kohl: MeMo² - MEasuring and MOdelling MEthane production and Methane Oxidation in boreal peatlands, 691,820 euros
Tatu Lajunen: Melanin-lipid drug delivery systems for ocular diseases (MELLI), 525,937 euros
Henna Martiskainen: Novel mechanisms of microglial dysfunction relevant for aging and Alzheimer’s disease, 603,903 euros
Researchers’ contact information: UEF Connect
Academy of Finland press release
