WE&ME - Emerging Leader Award - Deadline October 2026

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Also drawing people's attention to the Emerging Leaders award - two awards EUR5000 each. The award amount has ended up being pretty small. But, it's a nice acknowledgement of someone, an international award that is good on the CV and hopefully it makes the ME/CFS research field just that little bit more rewarding to smart young researchers.

Science For ME said:
WE&ME has also announced the Emerging Leader Award, providing two awards of EUR 5,000 each to early stage researchers actively working on ME/CFS and related illnesses - see here. The application deadline is October 2026.
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If you have a favourite young researcher working on ME/CFS or a related field, encourage them to apply. Even just them hearing from you that you think they deserve the award will be a good thing.
 
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Hutan said:
Also drawing people's attention to the Emerging Leaders award - two awards EUR5000 each. The award amount has ended up being pretty small. But, it's a nice acknowledgement of someone, an international award that is good on the CV and hopefully it makes the ME/CFS research field just that little bit more rewarding to smart young researchers.


If you have a favourite young researcher working on ME/CFS or a related field, encourage them to apply. Even just them hearing from you that you think they deserve the award will be a good thing.
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Reminder via Twitter:
WE&ME Foundation @weandmecfs
WE&ME Emerging Leader Award: Nominations are still open.
Each year from 2026 to 2029, the WE&ME Emerging Leader Award recognises two outstanding early-career researchers in ME/CFS or related post-acute infectious disease research.
Awardees receive €5,000 each.Current PhD candidates and researchers who completed their PhD within the past eight years are eligible.
The call is open to researchers worldwide.
The award is nomination-based.
Candidates may be recommended by senior researchers, patients, patient representatives, patient organisations or charities.
Nominations must be submitted via email to funding@weandmecfs.org by 15 October 2026 using the provided nomination template.
Award details:weandmecfs.org/weme-emerging…
Nomination template:weandmecfs.org/wp-content/up…
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This looks like applicant and nominator have to put their heads together, each filling in their own section? This is from the application form
[Edit: deleted a line about a section of the application form I had misunderstood]

Applicant (Institution)
Nominator (Institution)

Candidate section
Short bio
Your engagement with ME/CFS
Most significant scientific contribution to date
Use of the award funds
What is the research question in this field that you most want to see answered in the next five years?

Nominator section
Short bio of the nominator
Short Statement
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Dolphin said:
Daniel Missailidis is someone who would be a good candidate. He did his PhD in 2021 https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmissailidis . Probably won’t nominate him myself as I have a lot of demands on me relative to my health but hope someone does.
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Do we need a matchmaking service?

I have no idea which of our resident researchers fit the early career tag and which of those again are interested in applying and are looking for a nominator and I expect I'm not the only ignoramus here

As for Daniel, if nobody else has nominated him yet I would be very happy to do it (though note that I don't have an institution behind me; it may be better if the nominator was affiliated to one?). Of course that's if he wishes to apply - he may be too busy with other priorities like chasing larger grants. Feel free to DM me @DMissa if I can be of any help
 
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