Deadline: October 19th, 2024 11:59 PM EDT
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The Blavatnik National Awards recognize excellence in three disciplinary categories: Life Sciences; Physical Sciences & Engineering; and Chemistry. Every year, one Blavatnik National Awards Laureate in each category will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds. The prize money is given directly to the Laureate. Additional nominees are recognized as Finalists.
Nominees and their work as independent investigators will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
Quality – The extent to which the work is reliable, valid, credible, and scientifically rigorous.
Impact – The extent to which the work addresses an important problem, advances scientific progress, and is influential in the nominee’s field, related fields, or beyond, and/or has the potential to benefit society.
Novelty – The extent to which the work challenges existing paradigms, establishes a new field or considerably expands an existing field, employs original methodologies or concepts, and/or pursues an original question.
Promise – The nominee has potential for further significant contributions to science, and the research program will generate further impactful and novel discoveries.
Full Proposal Deadline: 12/4/2024
Link to FOA Here: http://blavatnikawards.org/awards/national-awards/
Candidate Eligibility:
- The nominee must:
- Have been born in or after 1983.
- Hold a doctorate degree (PhD, DPhil, MD, DDS, DVM, etc.).
- Currently hold a tenured or tenure-track academic faculty position, or equivalent, at an invited institution in the US.
- Currently conduct research as a principal investigator in one of the disciplinary categories in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, or Chemistry.
Institutional Limit: Each institution may submit up to three nominations, one in each disciplinary category of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry.
Application Information: Submit a research summary (900 words max.) with the following information:
- Write the summary to be accessible to another scientist working in their overarching disciplinary category(e.g., Life Sciences) but not necessarily in their specific field of study (e.g., Neuroscience);
- Include key results, their impact on the nominee’s field of study, and the nominee’s specific role in the described work (especially where the nominee is involved in large collaborations);
- Exclude information about the nominee’s positions, awards, and service activities, or other information that will be contained in the CV.
- If desired, include one figure illustrating the most significant results.
- Citations and figure caption do not count toward the word limit.
Applications not adhering to this requirement will be returned without review.
Merit Review Criteria: Research summaries will be reviewed based on the criteria detailed in the solicitation.
