EACR – Mark Foundation –
Pezcoller Foundation
Rising Star Award
Open to EACR members with an unfunded Score ‘A’ cancer-related project from the 2024 ERC Starting Grant calls.
The awardee will receive funding of up to €100.000 to begin their project. Institutional overheads of 10% will be added to this amount.
The award is intended to enable the progression of excellent cancer research by bridging the period before re-submission to the ERC. The awardee will be invited to accept their award, and to give a talk at the EACR Annual Congress and also at the Pezcoller Foundation in Trento, Italy, at a date to be agreed.
CALL FOR THE 2025 RISING STAR AWARD
Application deadline: October 10, 2024
Applicants must have an unfunded Score ‘A’ cancer-related project from the annual ERC Starting Grant calls. The ERC defines Score ‘A’ as “Fully meets the ERC excellence criterion and is recommended for funding if sufficient funds are available”.
Download the Terms and Conditions
How to apply
Please email your completed application form and the below accompanying documents as a single PDF to laura.kendrick@eacr.org. Applicants can expect to hear the result of the evaluation by 15 November 2024.
Documents to send:
- Completed Application Form
- Concise curriculum vitae (CV) [1 page maximum]
- A copy of your ‘B1’ ERC Starting Grant application
- Confirmation of your unfunded Score ‘A’ cancer-related project
For more info visit EACR

The winner of the 2025 EACR-Mark Foundation-Pezcoller Foundation Rising Star Award Dr. Kovatcheva

2025 - Marta Kovatcheva
IFOM, Milano

2024 - Stamatis Papathanasiou
Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germania

2023 - Isidro Cortés-Ciriano
EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, Regno Unito