InBev-Baillet Latour Fund

The Artois-Baillet Latour Foundation is a Belgian non-profit organization which was founded on 1 March 1974.

The foundation was born by the initiative of Count Alfred de Baillet Latour, who was the Director of the Artois Breweries in Leuven, Belgium.

The Foundation wants to encourage and reward achievements of outstanding human value in the Arts and Sciences.

The Artois-Baillet Latour Health Prize was established in 1977 to be awarded periodically to recognize the merits of a person whose work has contributed prominently to the improvement of human health in the fields of metabolic disorders, infectious diseases, neurological diseases, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Worth 250,000 euros, it is Belgium's major scientific prize.

The 2013 prize is given by The Queen of the Belgians to Carlo M. Croce