WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

The annual Pfizer Oncology Award is intended to support, recognise and encourage one innovative project in Belgium or Luxembourg that improves the quality or additionally the availability of patient care in oncology.

The Pfizer Oncology Award of 25.000 € will reward a project focusing on oncology and/or hematology patient care.

FOR WHICH PROJECT?

The Pfizer Oncology Award is open to projects that aim to improve the quality and/or availability of patient care in oncology and hematology.

Eligible projects can be related to new ways of collaboration and organisation between various healthcare providers or different levels of care throughout the course of the disease. Projects must be in the conceptual or design phase and start within a year of receiving the award. Fundamental, translational and commercial clinical drug trials are out of scope.

WHO CAN SUBMIT?

The project must be realized in collaboration with a hospital, network of hospital, university, certified medical center or registered scientific society in Belgium or Luxembourg. We welcome submissions from healthcare professionals and all members of the multidisciplinary team, favoring comprehensive and collaborative patient care. 

An independent Scientific Committee has developed a set of rules, including predefined selection criteria, to select the winning projects. For all details, please refer to the rules.

WHO’S THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE?

  • PROF. SYLVIE ROTTEY, MD, PhD

    Medical Oncologist, Clinical Pharmacologist
    Head of the department  of Medical Oncology Gent University Hospital
    Head of the Drug Research Unit Gent

     

  • DR. GUY BERCHEM MD, PhD

    Medical Oncologist, Head
    Oncology Platform Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (CHL) President Luxembourg National Institute of Cancer (INC)

  • MR. PATRICK CROMBEZ RN, AOCNS, MSCN, MHCM, MMCA

    Head Nurse Department
    of Hematology Bordet Institute Brussels
    President of the Belgian Oncology Nursing Society SIO
    Executive Board Member European Oncology Nursing Society

  • MR. SVEN D’HAESE, MSC

    Coordinator of the Radiotherapy Department of UZ Brussel
    Chairman of VVRO (Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology nurses)

  • PROF. GUY JERUSALEM, MD, PhD

    Head of Medical Oncology
    CHU Sart Tilman Liege

  • PROF. JEAN - FRANCOIS BAURAIN, MD, PhD

    Head of Clinic
    Responsible of melanoma Clinic
    Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc – Brussels

  • PROF. DR. HANS PRENEN

    Head of Oncology department,
    Head of Phase 1 - Clinical Trials
    Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen

  • PROF. ANNE DEMOLS, MD, PhD

    Department of Gastroenterology and Digestive Oncology,
    Hôpital Erasme et Institut Jules Bordet, HUB

  • PROF. PETER VANDENBERGHE, MD, PhD

    Head of Department of Haematology,
    UZ Leuven

    Department of Human Genetics,
    KU Leuven

  • DR. LORE DECOSTER, MD, PhD

    Medical Oncology
    UZ Brussel

HOW TO PARTICIPATE?

SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT
VIA THE ONLINE APPLICATION FORM

TAKE A LOOK
AT THE RULES