(FOA)-Limited Submission – Blavatnik Family Foundation - Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists (2020): November 13, 2019

 

Purpose: The New York Academy of Sciences and the Blavatnik Family Foundation invite nominations for the 2020 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. Blavatnik National Awards recognize the country’s most promising faculty-rank scientists and engineers in the disciplinary categories of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Chemistry. Candidates for the 2019 Blavatnik National Awards must be nominated by their institutions. The nominator must be the institution’s President, Provost, or their official designee. 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 on 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.

 

Eligibility Requirements:

A nominee must:

·         Have been born in or after 1978*,

·         Hold a doctoral degree,

·         Currently hold a faculty position at an invited institution in the United States

 

*Age limit exceptions will be considered by the Academy in exceptional circumstances upon a detailed written submission from the nominating institution received by the Academy at blavatnikawards@nyas.org no later than Wednesday, October 30, 2019

 

Funding Amount: $250,000

 

Institutional Limit:  3– one in each of three categories (Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry)

 

Link to Funding Opportunity Announcement

 

Internal Competition: To participate in the university’s selection process, please upload the following, assembled into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research via this portal with a copy to your Associate Dean for Research by October 1, 2019.

·         Candidate’s name, date of birth, primary department appointment

·         Category (Life Sciences; Physical Sciences & Engineering; Chemistry)

·         Rationale for nomination (200 words) – a statement detailing strong record of significant independent scientific contributions, early career success, and promise of sustained or accelerated progress

·         Brief project description (1000 words maximum) – a statement of the most significant scientific contributions and research.

·         CV (4 pages maximum).

 

A committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation.

 

For questions or issues with submission through the portal, email the limited submission mailbox (limitedsubmissions@uky.edu), or call 257-2861.

 

Agency Deadline:  Nominations- November 13, 2019; Letters of Support - November 27, 2019