Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:59 AM PDT
Call for Nominations: Lurie Prize in the Biomedical SciencesNomination Deadline: October 1, 2013 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
In 2014, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) will present the second annual Lurie Prize, an award recognizing outstanding achievement by a promising young scientist in biomedical research. The Prize amount is $100,000, to be used as the awardee chooses. It is made possible by a generous gift from FNIH board member Ann Lurie. The 2013 Lurie Prize was awarded to Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Ph.D., David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
The awardee will be selected by a jury of six distinguished biomedical researchers, chaired by Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., Distinguished Service Professor of Neuroscience, Pharmacology & Psychiatry, The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
The Award will be presented to the selected scientist in spring, 2014.
Nomination Criteria
Nominations are broadly solicited and can be made by any member of an accredited educational and/or scientific institution. There is no limitation on the number of nominations that may be made by a single nominator or institution. No institutional approval is required.
Nominations are to be for an outstanding young biomedical investigator, who must be 52 years of age or younger as of January 1, 2014. A candidate nominated in a previous year may be nominated again as long as he or she still meets the age requirement.
Nomination materials must be in English.
Nominations will not be accepted for candidates whose current location or permanent residence is in countries sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Asset Control. See the current list of sanctions at http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/Programs.aspx.
No self-nominations will be accepted.
If the nominee is a U.S. federal government employee or anyone else whose receipt of personal cash awards MAY be restricted, the nominator must confirm with the appropriate authority the nominee’s eligibility to receive this award. (For NIH employees, that authority is the NIH Ethics Office.)
Nominations must include the following information:
The name and full contact information of the candidate (name, professional title, institutional affiliation, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address, earned degrees, birthdate).
The name and full contact information of the nominator (name, professional title, institutional affiliation, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address, highest degree).
A 50 word citation of the basis for nomination.
A 250 word description of the candidate’s contributions.
The candidate's curriculum vitae (CV) including no more than 10 citations of publications on which the nomination is based.
Nominations submitted with CVs listing more than 10 publications will be rejected. Those nominations may be resubmitted in accordance with the guidelines IF the submission deadline has not passed.
Questions? Please contact us at lurieprizeinfo@fnih.org.
