Science & SciLifeLab $30,000 Prize for Young Scientists from AAAS 2021

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Applicant criteria

NationalityNo specific nationality required
Age
  • 13 - 50
Gender
  • Both

Opportunity criteria

LocationRemotely
Needed documentsRecommendation Letter, Essay, Application form

Opportunity description

AAAS is offering science competition annually to one young scientist for outstanding life science research for which they were awarded a doctoral degree in the previous two years. 

Benefits

  • USD 30,000 for the grand prize winner
  • USD 10,000 for each of the category winners

Eligibility criteria

  • Eligible entrants must have been awarded their doctoral degree in 2019 or 2020, and the subject of their thesis should match one of the Subject Tracks below. 
  • The topic of the entrant's thesis research must be in one of the following categories: Cell and Molecular Biology; Genomics, Proteomics, and Systems Biology approaches; Ecology and Environment; Molecular Medicine.
  • The winners from each category will compete for the grand prize.
  • The prize will only recognize work that was performed while the entrant was a graduate student.
  • The prize will be awarded without regard to sex, race, or nationality.
  • Employees of Science/AAAS, collaborators in the management or sponsorship of this prize and their relatives are not eligible to enter

Required Documents:

  • A completed Entry Form.
  • An essay, written by the entrant, describing the thesis work and its implications for research in the selected Subject Track. The essay must not exceed 1,000 words in length and may include one figure or table.
  • A one-page reference letter from your advisor or a member of your thesis committee. The letter should include an assessment of the applicant and comment on the significance of the applicant’s research.
  • The abstract of the thesis (not to exceed four double-spaced typed pages).
  • A list of the following:
  1. Full citations of all published or in-press papers on the research described in the essay;
  2. Academic and professional awards and honors that the entrant has received; and
  3. Relevant professional experience.

About AAAS:

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journals, Science, Science Translational Medicine, Science Signaling, Science Advances, Science Immunology, and Science Robotics. AAAS was founded in 1848, and includes some 254 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science, founded by Thomas Edison, has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of more than 400,000.

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