Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists National Competition 2021
To: | Chairs and Administrators, Departments in the Biological, Physical, and Social Sciences; Associate Deans for Research; College/School Research Administrators |
From: | Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Graduate Education |
Date: | August 26, 2020 |
Subject: | Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists National Competition |
Deadline
Deadline for Internal Review: | September 21, 2020 |
Project Description
The Blavatnik Family Foundation is providing critical support to seed innovative work in science and technology that will address society’s most pressing global problems. These awards recognize the country’s most promising faculty-rank researchers in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry.
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.
Amount per award: $250,000
Duration of award: 1 Year
Number of awards: One Blavatnik Laureate in each Disciplinary Category
Eligibility
The nominee must:
- Have been born in or after 1979.
- Hold a doctorate degree (PhD, DPhil, MD, DDS, DVM, etc.).
- Currently hold a tenured or tenure-track academic faculty position (or equivalent).
- Currently conduct research as a principal investigator in one of the disciplinary categories in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, or Chemistry.
UW-Madison may submit up to three nominations, one in each disciplinary category.
The Blavatnik Awards strongly encourage the nomination of women and other historically underrepresented groups in science and engineering.
Website
The following link contains additional information on the program and specific application instructions:
http://blavatnikawards.org/awards/national-awards/
Internal Competition Application Instructions
Applications for Internal Review
To submit your application, attach a single PDF to an email to: grants@research.wisc.edu
Please include the following information:
- Cover Page including name, title, contact information, and disciplinary category (Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, or Chemistry).
- Curriculum Vitae (4-page maximum).
- Research Summary: A 1,000-word maximum summary of up to five of the nominee’s most significant scientific contributions and research accomplishments. Key results, their impact on the nominee’s field of study, and the nominee’s specific role in the described work should be included. Information about the nominee’s positions, awards, and service activities should be excluded. One figure illustrating the most significant results is allowed. Citations and figure caption do not count toward the word limit.
- Professional Service and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement (1-page maximum) describing outreach activities and/or professional service, with particular focus on activities and service related to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the scientific community.
Sponsor Deadlines
Applications are due to Blavatnik Family Foundation by October 28, 2020.
Questions?
Contact grants@research.wisc.edu.