The European Hematology Association (EHA)

Research

EHA Research Grants

The call for applications will close on October 15, 2024, at 15:00 (CEST).  Apply now

EHA Research Grants support talented junior researchers in advancing their career—for example, by helping them move towards becoming the leader of a research group.

If you want to advance your career and have the support of your department and institute, you're welcome to apply for one of these grants.

What is an EHA Research Grant?

An EHA Research Grant is a financial award that can help you:

  • Carry out basic or translational lab-based research in hematology
  • Get valuable research and leadership experience
  • Advance in your career as a hematologist

These grants:

  • Last for a period of three years
  • Provide an annual financial award of €50,000 to €80,000, depending on the type of grant

General eligibility criteria

You must be an EHA member or EHA guest to apply for an EHA Research Grant.

You can be of any nationality, but your home or host institute must be an academic research center or proven equivalent. One of them must be in located in Europe.

In all cases, your application must:

  • Have the support of an academic department and institute
  • Relate to basic and translational lab-based research in hematology

Your application will not be eligible if it relates to:

  • Purely clinical research projects
  • Projects in health economics
  • Other non-lab-based research

However, it may be eligible if it relates to the translational part of a clinical trial. In this case, it must be both relevant and novel.

EHA Research Grant categories

Junior Research Grant: €50,000 per year for three years

Advanced Research Grant: €80,000 per year for three years

Physician Scientist Research Grant: €80,000 per year for three years

Topic-in-Focus Research Grant

A Topic-in-Focus Research Grant is a separate category of EHA Research Grant. For this type of grant:

  • Eligibility is based on the same criteria we use for our main research grants
  • You can apply for it by selecting the ‘Topic-in-Focus’ option in your grant application—e.g. in an application for an Advanced Research Grant

This type of grant is suitable for researchers whose project focus is on either of the following topics:

  • Hemoglobinopathies
  • Precision Hematology

Topic-in-Focus Grant in Hemoglobinopathies

This grant is suitable for researchers who perform research in the field of hemoglobinopathies with a focus on sickle cell disease.

You can apply for this grant in any of the following categories:

  • Junior Research Grant
  • Advanced Research Grant
  • Physician Scientist Research Grant

Please check out the requirements for the respective category above and during your application select the ‘Topic-in-Focus’ version of your category.

Topic-in-Focus Grant in Precision Hematology

Our Topic-in-Focus Grant in Precision Hematology promotes innovative concepts for diagnostics and clinical trial designs—with a concrete view to translation into clinical application in precision hematology.

This grant is suitable for researchers whose focus is on translational science in malignant hematology—to address urgent medical needs in rare diseases with precision medicine approaches.

Proposals should aim to achieve at least one of the following:

  • Establish new principles or platforms to define biomarkers that may guide treatment interventions
  • Develop methodologies for assessing new functional and/or predictive biomarkers with the goal of guiding treatment interventions
  • Undertake pilot biomarker studies within a clinical trial to evaluate biomarker effectiveness.

This grant will not fund proposals on:

  • Molecular profiling of disease entities for classification or stratification
  • Validating established diagnostic methodologies
  • Performing molecular, functional, or other systematic (proteomics, metabolomics, dependency mapping) screenings.

You can apply for this grant in any of the following categories:

  • Junior Research Grant
  • Advanced Research Grant
  • Physician Scientist Research Grant

Please check out the requirements for the respective category above and during your application select the ‘Topic-in-Focus’ version of your category.

Extending the reach of EHA Research Grants

To extend the reach of EHA Research Grants, we've earmarked up to two grants across all categories for researchers based in one of the following countries:

  • Albania
  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Czechia
  • Estonia
  • Georgia
  • Hungary
  • Kosovo
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Moldova
  • Montenegro
  • North Macedonia
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Serbia
  • Slovak Republic
  • Slovenia
  • Türkiye
  • Ukraine

If you believe you're eligible and want to apply, please:

  • Check out the requirements for the relevant grant (above)
  • Select the respective category during your application

If you have any questions, please contact us at EHA-Grants@ecorys.com before submitting an application.