Biochemical Society Early Career Research Awards

The Biochemical Society wishes to recognize the impact of research carried out by early-career scientists who have been awarded their PhD within the last five years and who have performed a significant proportion of their work in the UK or the Republic of Ireland. These Awards will, on a two year cycle, recognize the breadth of science across the Society's Theme Panels. Each Awardee will receive £1,000 and a Medal.

• Molecular Structure and Function
• Cell Biology
• Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
• Development and Disease

• Genes
• Bioenergetics and Metabolism
• Signal Transduction

Nomination packs must include: CV, brief research statement, nominating letter, and two letters of support (at least one of which must come from outside the nominee’s institution). Nomination packs should be submitted to Sheila Alink-Brunsdon (sheila.alink-brunsdon@biochemistry.org) at the Biochemical Society either by post or electronically by 15 December 2008.

Criteria
Nominees must, at 30 January 2009, be within five years^* of having been awarded their PhD. It is expected that successful candidates will have produced international quality research outputs, and be able to demonstrate ambitions and aspirations consistent with the potential to achieve world-leading status. A significant proportion of these outputs should arise from work performed in the UK or the Republic of Ireland.

^*The Awards Committee will take into account nominations where the researcher has lost time in their career through family commitments, illness, late entry into higher education or other good reasons.

Procedure
Nominations will first be considered by the appropriate Theme Panel and then the final decisions will be made by the Awards Committee. The Awards Committee will take into account nominations where the researcher has lost time in their career through family commitments, illness, late entry into higher education or other good reasons.

Award Presentations

The Theme Panel I (Genes) Early Careers Award Lecture will be presented in 2009 by Dr Araxi Urrutia (University of Bath, UK) at the Biochemical Society / Wellcome Trust Focused Meeting on Protein Evolution - Sequences, Structures and Systems. Hinxton, Cambridge. 26 - 27 January 2009.

The Theme Panel III (Bioinformatics and Metabolism) Early Careers Award Lecture will be presented in 2009 by Dr Paul Curnow (University of Bristol, UK) at the 'Bionanotechnology II: from biomolecular assembly to applications' Focused Meeting. Robinson College, Cambridge, UK. 7 - 9 January 2009.

The Theme Panel V (Signal Transduction) Early Careers Award Lecture will be presented in 2009 by Dr David Komander (Institute of Cancer Research, UK) at the 'Dynamic cell' the first joint meeting of the Biochemical Society and the British Society for Cell Biology. Appleton Tower, University of Edinburgh, UK. 1-4 April 2009.

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