National Faculty Competition of the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

National Faculty Competition of the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists The national faculty competition of the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists recognizes the country’s most promising young faculty-rank scientists and engineers in the disciplinary categories of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry. One Blavatnik Laureate from each disciplinary category will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds and be published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences on the topic for which he/she is being honored. The national awards will be conferred at a ceremony held in the fall of 2015 in New York City. Limited submission Institutional nominations of candidates for the national faculty competition must be submitted by the institution’s President, Provost, or the President’s official designee. Each institution may nominate up to three candidates per year, one in each disciplinary category (Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry). ELIGIBILITY To be eligible, a candidate must: Have been born in or after 1973. Have earned a doctoral degree (PhD, DPhil, MD, DDS, DVM, etc.). Currently hold a faculty-rank position at an invited institution in the United States. Have made significant research contributions to the life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, and/or chemistry during his/her independent career as a principal investigator. Candidates who are no...
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