Our Purpose: Accelerating Science to Protect What Matters

Funding Innovative and Transformative Research

The AXA Research Fund seeks to support scientists of the highest caliber and potential whose research projects are innovative and transformative. The Fund also strives to catalyze a step-change in the career of its supported researchers through funding, public engagement, and increased collaboration.

Disseminating Knowledge and Informing Decision-Making

The AXA Research Fund works to accelerate scientific dissemination and support the promotion of its grantees’ expertise and research outcomes. In addition to financial support, the Fund assists researchers' outreach efforts by engaging the community of grantees with nonscientific audiences and media partnerships. Ultimately, our goal is the dissemination of scientific knowledge towards better informing decision-making.

Composed of top-tier scientists from a variety of research fields, the Scientific Board ensures the selection of research projects, following a rigorous process of academic pre-screening and peer review, to select some of the best researchers with high transformative potential, from top academic institutions. The Scientific Board is responsible for the transparency and the integrity of the selection process.

The Advisory Board, composed of C-suite AXA Group business leaders, provides inputs on broad strategic development and research fields to be developed.

The team is responsible for the definition and implementation of the Fund’s strategy, ensuring the development of strong partner relationships with the community of AXA-supported researchers and their academic institutions, and developing communication and dissemination initiatives.