Dr. Albert Dubois Foundation - Dubois-Briqué Scholarship

Dubois-Briqué Scholarship

For the final year of your PhD, you will receive 50,000 EUR: 40,000 EUR as a scholarship, as well as 10,000 EUR to cover ongoing research costs. This amount covers 12 months and is intended to help you complete your doctoral thesis and publish your findings. Your university is not permitted to deduct any administrative fees from these amounts. The scholarship is provided by the Dr Albert Dubois Foundation. It is administered by the Royal Academy of Medicine in Belgium and awarded every three years.

Who can apply

• Degree level: You are a PhD student in the final year of your doctoral thesis.
• University: You are enrolled as a PhD student at a Belgian university.
• Field of study: Your research focuses on tropical human or veterinary pathology, for example in the epidemiology, clinical investigation or biology of infectious, parasitic or metabolic diseases.
• Nationality: Applicants of all nationalities are welcome to apply. The key requirement is that you are studying at a Belgian university.
• Other funding: This grant cannot be combined with other funding for the same project.
• Readiness to publish: Realistically speaking, you should be able to publish your work by the end of the scholarship year. This is the jury’s main criterion.

How to apply

Please complete the official form on the Academy’s website and email it, together with your supporting documents, to the Academy’s secretariat. The deadline is 12 January 2026. A panel of six experts, appointed by the two Belgian medical academies, will decide who is awarded the scholarship.