The Pershing Square Sohn Prize for
Young Investigators in Cancer Research will provide young New York - based scientists the freedom to take risks and pursue their boldest research at a stage when traditional funding is lacking.
(The latter movie actually features a triptych of women: the witch / victim crone, the caretaker, and
the young investigator.)
A native of New York, Shapiro has been honored with several prestigious awards, including the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology Award for Clinical Research, the UCLA Division of Head and Neck Surgery Faculty Teaching Award, and the American Academy of Pediatrics
Young Investigators Award.
He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, corecipient of the 2004 Max Weber Award, founder of the Cornell University Center for the Study of Inequality, and former Presidential
Young Investigator.
Ameer was the recipient of the National Kidney Foundation's Victor M. G. Chaltiel
Young Investigator grant and the American Heart Association's Scientist Development grant.
It was enriching to see how many bright
young investigators there are in Europe, Mirdal says.
He had hunted Soviet subs in the Baltic Sea, lost a small fortune in the 2000 stock market crash, racked up a series of awards for
young investigators, and authored numerous papers in top journals.
Kenney was recognized with the 2015
Young Investigator awardee from Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.
At EMBO's
Young Investigator program meetings, it facilitates extra rooms for mothers of babies or accompanying parents and will arrange babysitting services upon individual request, Wallon says.
Thus the European
Young Investigator award (EURYI) was born.
The exact details of the ERC
young investigator award scheme will be announced by the end of the year, says Kafatos, «but I can already say that it will not be exactly like EURYI.»
It has two international organizations that give small grants to
young investigators and host a world conference.
These awards are generally geared to
young investigators and / or unconventional research directions.
Next year, the ERC will launch its own
young investigator award scheme, which will dwarf the ESF effort and almost every other award for early career scientists.
What drew these scientists to Maryland's Eastern Shore was the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Center for Cancer Research Fellows and
Young Investigators (CCR - FYI) Third Annual Retreat.
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are training grants designed to enable
young investigators to qualify for independent careers in suicide research.
He sees the field as growing, and feels that the NIH generally supports
young investigators.
This program can be instrumental in encouraging
a young investigator to enter the field of HD research.
After all that travel, and yet some more, Bachtold, who this week was awarded a European
Young Investigator award by the European Research Organisations Heads of Research Councils (EuroHORCS) and the European Science Foundation (ESF), is now enjoying the feeling of being in the right place for both his professional and personal life.
Regardless of the geographic setting, the goals and challenges of translational research are the same, says Liu: Getting funding and infrastructure support from the government, training
young investigators, creating a multidisciplinary community of researchers who can effectively communicate with each other, and finding ways to systematically implement translational research results into clinical practice.
I am now blessed with wonderful, motivated students, which I am hiring with the EMBO YIP [
Young Investigator Programme] money.»
The goal is to give universities an added incentive to recruit
young investigators and provide newly hired faculty members with some breathing room before applying for their first major grant, says Story Landis, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Young Investigators Award The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention provides support for investigators for one or two years studying the clinical, biological, or psychosocial aspects of suicide.
Even though I was initially drawn to the more prominent members of an institution's faculty — the ones I was most likely to have heard of before joining the institution — I quickly found myself paying more attention to
younger investigators and their new perspectives on larger research problems.
Next Wave asked some of academia's rising stars (see box)-- marked out as such because the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has chosen to award them its prestigious
Young Investigator accolade — to share the secrets of their success.
When their colleagues withhold data,
young investigators» exposure to the most current ideas, materials, and information may suffer, and their skills may not be developed as fully as possible.
Other differences between R03s and FIRST awards may indicate a change of attitude toward
young investigators in recent years.
So having achieved an independent position, is heading their own groups anything like
these young investigators expected it to be?
In fact, one way that translational science programs integrate disciplines is to have students and
young investigators act as liaisons between senior faculty in different departments.
The result won him a prize from the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Centre and
the Young Investigator Award from the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Foundation.
For Emiliani, who this week was awarded a European
Young Investigator award, it was worth the wait.
For
a young investigator, this provides an excellent opportunity to launch their independent, scientific endeavors without having to worry about the source of the next grant.
I could have continued at IMP for two more years but somehow I felt it was time for me to be subjected to the tribulations of
a young investigator.
Its National Research Foundation, only eight years old, provides hefty fellowships to
young investigators (up to US$ 3 million), as well as support for technology accelerators and startups.
«Today, in contrast to our days, [
young investigators] must be continuously justifying what they do.
An assistant professor who wrote her first successful R01 when she was still a postdoc, Suter believes that «
young investigators who are in the position to make that transition to independence with their first R01,» and who recently submitted a proposal that was «very well - crafted and very well - received by their study sections but still couldn't meet pay lines,» will get a second look as funding agencies focus on applications that are already in - house.
These, she thinks, were instrumental in her receiving an EMBO
Young Investigator Award, for which she had nominated herself.
Today,
young investigators must utilize the usual R01 machinery to get funded — and that means that NIH has to make sure that the standard review process works well for this second tier of
young investigators.
Young Investigators» Grants are awarded to teams of researchers, all within the first 5 years after getting an independent laboratory.
Climate researchers from the Helmholtz
Young Investigators Group ECUS at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam have now investigated how temperature variability changed as the Earth warmed from the last glacial period to the current interglacial period.
«We want to stimulate research by giving a chance to
young investigators starting either from an existing small group or from scratch, i.e., just finishing their first or second postdoc.»
The scientific community has long considered single - investigator research grants, such as the RO1 offered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Holy Grail of science funding — but that goal often remains elusive, particularly for
young investigators.
Since 2000, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)-- an organisation dedicated to promoting biological science in Europe — has used
its Young Investigator Programme (YIP) to help talented life scientists start independent research careers in Europe
Last year, it announced the K99 / R00 Pathway to Independence (PI) award, a new mechanism designed to increase the share of federally - funded awards received by
younger investigators and to create institutional incentives to help postdocs become independent investigators.
From Advice for
a Young Investigator Cajal's precise understanding of anatomy is echoed in modern visualization techniques.
From Advice for
a Young Investigator
► This week's NextGen VOICES survey asks, «What is the most challenging ethical question facing
young investigators in your field?
«If indeed funding gets tighter in the U.S., India might be more attractive, but it would be a great leap for the typical American postdoc to move to India,» observes Ronald Vale of the University of California, San Francisco who spent a 9 - month sabbatical at the NCBS in 2007 - 08 and co-organized
the Young Investigator Meeting, now in its 6th year.
Several programs have been initiated to help promote
young investigators, such as the Avenir program at INSERM, which provides young scientists who already have a permanent position with fully equipped space within their host department and funding toward research expenses and salaries for nonpermanent staff for up to 5 years.
Brockmann is paid by the NCBS's — a part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, (TIFR)--
Young Investigator Programme.