Description

LEO Foundation’s Serendipity Grants enable current grantees to investigate novel, unexpected discoveries or ideas arising during an ongoing Foundation-funded project. The proposed work must significantly depart from the original project, rather than represent its logical next step. Ideas may fall outside the applicant’s primary research focus and must be sufficiently early-stage that support through other LEO Foundation funding programs would be unlikely.

The program supports exploration across all aspects of life science research, from basic molecular principles through translational and epidemiological studies to clinical implementation and technology development. Announced annually in open competition, it creates room to mature unexpected findings and establish a basis for further investigation, potentially leading to full-scale scientific or clinical breakthroughs.