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Honorary Societies
ASCI-American Society of Clinical Investigation
(Nominations accepted by Dec. 8, 2006)
Membership to the ASCI is by election only and is considered an extraordinary honor in academic medicine and industry. Each year, ASCI members nominate those
they feel have had significant accomplishments at a relatively early age — 45 or younger — in their careers.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
IOM-Institute of Medicine
2006 cycle completed. 2007 TBA
Election to the Institute of Medicine is one of the most distinguished achievements accorded to those in fields related to medicine and health, reflecting both an honor and obligation to work on behalf of the organization, its governance, and its studies. With their election, members make a commitment to devote a significant amount of volunteer time on a broad range of activities on health policy issues.
National Academy of Science
Election to membership in the National Academy of Sciences is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. Academy membership recognizes those who have made distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Nominations can be submitted throughout the year only by NAS members.
Distinguished Achievement Awards
sponsor deadlines:February:
Welch Award in Chemistry (Feb. 1, 2007)
Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards (Feb. 7, 2007)
March:
The Alton Ochsner Award Relating Smoking and Health (March 13, 2007)
American Philosophical Society: Judson Daland Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Investigation (March 15, 2007)
April:
AAMC Herbert W. Nicksens, M.D. Award (April 7, 2006)
Mc Gill University: Louis and Artur Lucian Award (April TBA)
AAMC The Humanism in Medicine Award (April 16, 2007)
The Institute of Medicine: Gustav O. Lienhard Award (April TBA)
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Paul Marks Prize in Cancer Research (April 30, 2007)
May:
The New York Academy of Medicine Lewis Rudin Glaucoma Prize (May 1, 2007)
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
--Maxwelll Finland for Scientific Achievement (May TBA)
--The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Human Kind (May TBA)
AAMC Abraham Flexner Award (May 4, 2007)
AAMC The Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences (May 4, 2007)
AAMC The David E. Rogers Award (May 4, 2007)
Robarts Research Institute: J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine (May 15, 2007)
AAMC The Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teaching Awards (May 31, 2007)
July:
Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research (Alzheimer's Disease) (TBA)
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences (July 31, 2007)
August:
American Association for Cancer Research Kirk A. Landon Prize & Dorothy P. Landon Prize (Aug. TBA)
Wolf Prizes in Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics (Aug. TBA) September:
Harvard University Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (Sept. 22, 2006)
March of Dimes Research Prize in Developmental Biology (Sept. 15, 2006)
American Association for Cancer Research--Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research (Sept. 15, 2006)
USC/John and Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (Sept. 15, 2006)
University of Pittsburgh/ Dickson Prize in Medicine (TBA)
National Medal of Technology (TBA)
October:
Gairdner Foundation International Award (Oct. 1, 2006)
Lemelson-MIT Prizes/Improving Life Through Invention and Lifetime Achievement Awards (Oct. 27, 2006)
NSF-NSB Presidential Medal of Science (TBA)
November:
Baylor University/The Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching (Nov. 1, 2008)
American Academy of Neurology
Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases (Nov. TBA)
December:
American Association for Cancer Research--Lifetime Achievement Award (Dec. 1, 2006)
General Motors Cancer Research Award (TBA)
American Society for Clinical Investigation- 2007 Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award (Dec. 15, 2006)
The Jewish Guild for the Blind The Bressler Prize in Vision Science (Dec.31, 2006)
NSF- National Medal of Science (Dec. 29, 2006)
NSF-NSB A. T. Waterman Award (Dec. 31, 2006)
Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation: The Genetics Prize, The Neuroscience Prize (Dec. 31, 2006)
January:
Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research (Jan. 5, 2007)
Columbia University: The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry (Jan. 31, 2007)
AAMC
http://www.aamc.org/about/awards/start.htm
Herbert W. Nicksens, M.D. Award is given to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to promoting justice in medical education and health care.
Amount of award: $10,000
Deadline: April 7, 2007The Humanism in Medicine Award recognizes a medical school faculty physician who exemplifies the qualities of a caring and compassionate mentor in the teaching and advising of medical students.
Amount of award: $5,000
Deadline: April 16, 2007AAMC Abraham Flexner Award -extraordinary contributions to the medical education community
Amount of award: $10,000
Deadline: May 4, 2007AAMC The Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences honors outstanding biomedical research related to health and disease.
Amount of award: $5,000
Deadline: May 4, 2007AAMC The David E. Rogers Award is granted annually to a member of a medical school faculty who has made major contributions to improving the health and health care of the American people
Amount of award: $10,000
Deadline: May 4, 2007The Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teaching Awards recognize the significant contributions to medical education made by gifted teachers.
Amount of award: $10,000, $5,000 to institution
Deadline: May 31, 2007
Albany Medical Center
http://www.amc.edu/prize_in_medicine.htm
Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research For
a scientist, or group, whose work has lead to significant advances
in the fields of research with demonstrated translational benefits
applied to improved patient care. Established in 2001
Amount of award: $500,000
Deadline: Jan. 5, 2007
Albert and Mary Lasker
Foundation
http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/nominate.html
Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards:
Basic Medical Research
$100K and $100K Clinical Medical Research
Honors the scientist whose contribuutions, directly or indirectly, have led in a pioneering way to a major improvement in the clinical management or treatment of patients Clinical Medical Research $50K and Special Achievement in Medical
Science ($100K)
Deadline: Feb. 7, 2007
http://www.ochsner.org/body.cfm?id=31
This award honors individuals for their outstanding achievements relating the role of tobacco consumption to the pathogenesis of disease. $15,000 will be presented to one to three clinical and/or basic science investigators. The scientific work may be clinical, fundamental, epidemiological or preventive in scope.
Deadline: March 31, 2007
American Academy of Neurology
Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases
http://www.aan.com/professionals/awards/scientific/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.info&id=13
This award recognizes major contributions to the understanding of the causes, prevention, treatment, and cure for Pick's, Alzheimer's, and related diseases.
Amount of award: $100,000
Deadline: Nov. TBA
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
The Kirk A. Landon-AACR Prize for Basic Cancer Research recognizes significant, fundamental contributions to laboratory research.
Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research
The Dorothy P. Landon-AACR Prize for Translational Cancer Research recognizes extraordinary achievement in translational cancer research
$200,000 for each award
Deadline: Aug. 10
http://www.aacr.org/default.aspx?p=4073
This award recognizes a scientist who has made a major scientific discovery in basic cancer research OR who has made significant contributions to translational cancer research
Prize: 75,000 (Euro)=$91,687.50 (US)
Deadline: Sept. 15, 2006
http://www.aacr.org/default.aspx?p=3955
Other AACR awards: Sept. 16 deadline |
AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement
Deadline: Dec. 1, 2005
http://www.aacr.org/page3085.aspx
American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Foundation http://www.fdhn.org/html/awards/recognition_prizes.html
AGA AstraZeneca-William Beaumont International Prize for Distinguished
Research in Digestive Diseases
Amount of award: $25,000
Deadline: 2004 TBA
American Philosophical Society
Judson Daland Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Investigation recognizes outstanding achievement in patient-oriented research.
Amount of award: $20,000.
Deadline: March 15, 2007
American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)
Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award recognizes the outstanding achievements of an ASCI member in advancing knowledge in a specific field and in mentoring future generations of life-science researchers. The Award recipient receives an unrestricted $10,000 grant
Deadline: Dec. 15, 2006
Balzan Foundation
Balzan International Prize in Science (2005: Population Biology & Mineral Physics) Topics vary each year. Half of all prize money is channelled towards the development of research and to young scholars.
Amount of award: £1.7 million, US $ 2.7 million
Deadline: March TBA
Baylor University
The The Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching recipient will teach in residence at Baylor University for one semester during the 2006 fall or 2007 spring semester, (travel expenses and furnished apartment provided).This award program is designed to honor great teachers, to stimulate discussion in the academy about the value of teaching, and to encourage departments and institutions to value their own great teachers.
Amount of Award: $200,000 and $25,000 to their home department
Deadline: Nov. 1, 2008
Bristol Myers Squibb Distinguished Achievement Awards
http://www.bms.com/sr/grants/data/achiev.html
Amount of award: $50,000
Online Nomination deadlines
Cancer TBA
Cardiovascular TBA
Nutrition TBA
Metabolics TBA
Neuroscience TBA
Infectious Diseases TBA
Columbia University
The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry The Award honors a scientific investigator, or group of investigators, whose contributions to knowledge in either of biology or biochemistry are deemed worthy of special recognition.
Amount of award: Honorarium and citation.
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2007
Gairdner Foundation
International Award The Awards
are for basic biomedical and clinical research and recognize and reward
individuals whose seminal discoveries and major scientific contributions
constitute tangible and significant achievement in biomedical sciences
Amount of award: $30,000CN
Deadline: Oct. 1, 2006
General Motors Cancer Research Foundation
http://www.gm.com/company/gmability/philanthropy/cancer_research/history.htm
General Motors Cancer Research Award
Amount of award: $250,000 per category
Deadline: TBA
Harvard Medical School
Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Awarded
to one or more scientists who have made significant disocveries
leading to the prevention, cure or treatment of a disease or disorder
that afflicts humankind.
Amount of award: $100,000
Deadline: Sept. 22, 2006
The Institute of Medicine
Gustav O. Lienhard Award for outstanding achievement in improving
healthcare
Award recipients are selected on the basis
of two principal criteria: (1) achievement in the area of personal
health services; (2) achievement of national scope.
Amount of award: $25,000
Deadline: April TBA
The Institute of Medicine
The Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Award in Mental Health
The Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Award in Mental Health is awarded annually to individuals, groups, or organizations for outstanding achievement in improving mental health services, research, or public policy. The aim of the Sarnat Award is to recognize contributions to improve understanding or treatment for mental disorders (basic biomedical or clinical research); innovations in mental health services (counseling, clinical care, prevention, amelioration of symptoms, or promotion of mental health); or public policy change that fosters science or improves mental health services.
Amount of award: $20,000
Deadline: 2007 TBA
Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS)
International Prize for Biology
http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-biol/main.html
This prize is award to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of research in fundamental biology. The speciality within the field of biology chosen for 2004 was:
"Systemic Biology and Taxonomy".
Amount of award: 1 Million Yen
Deadline: May TBA
The Jewish Guild for the Blind
The Bressler Prize in Vision Science This prize is
open to all professionals in the field of vision science who have published
research or clinical work that has contributed significantly to the
advancement of vision care, the treatment of eye disease or the rehabilitation
of people with vision impairment or blindness.
Deadline: Dec. 31, 2006
The
Keio University Medical Science Fund
http://www.ms-fund.keio.ac.jp/prize.htm
The Keio Medical Science Prize is awarded to researchers in
recognition of their outstanding achievements in the field of medical
sciences or life sciences in the hope that it will ultimately contribute
to the peace and prosperity of humankind.
Amount of award: $20 million (conversion approx.= $180,
310 US)
Deadline: 04/01/04
Lemelson-MIT Program
$500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize
Improving Life Through Invention
$100,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Sustainabillity
Honoring a Lifetime of Inventive Contributions to Society
Deadline: Oct. 27, 2006
March of Dimes
Prize in Developmental Biology
Amount of award: $250,000
Deadline: Sept. 15, 2006
McGill University (Montreal)
Louis and Artur Lucian Award for outstanding research in
the field of circulatory diseases
Amount of award: $50,000 (Canadian)
Deadline: April TBA
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research Recognizes
significant contributions to the basic understanding and treatment
of cancer. This is the first major prize for most of the winners, who
are no more than 45 years old.
Amount of award: $150,000 (awarded to up to 3 investigators)
Deadline: April 30, 2007
Metlife Foundation (no website available- to request a copy of the award notice, please send an email to Jeanne Heschele
at jheschele@stanford.edu)
Award for Medical Research (Alzheimers Research)
Amount of award: $50,000 (personal) and $200,000 (laboratory research)
Deadline: TBA
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
http://nfid.org/fellow/awards.html
The Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement, developed in 1988, now recognizes scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the understanding of infectious diseases or public health.Some of the criteria on which selection is based include:* Excellence in clinical and/or research activities* Participation in the training of future leaders in the field* Positive impact on the health of humankind.
Deadline: May TBA
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Human Kind. Criteria are based on legislative or administrative contributions, humanitarian service; and or public education activities.
Deadline: May TBA
National Medal of Technology
http://www.technology.gov/medal/
The National Medal of Technology is the highest honor
bestowed by the President of the United States to America's leading
innovators
Deadline: TBA
National Science Foundation (NSF) / National Science Board (NSB)
Presidential Medal of Science Award
The National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress in 1959 as a Presidential Award to be given to individuals "deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences." In 1980 Congress expanded this recognition to include the social and behavioral sciences.
Deadline: Dec. 29, 2006Alan T. Waterman Award
http://www.nsf.gov/od/waterman/waterman.jsp
Amount of award: the awardee receives a grant of $500,000 over a three year period for scientific research or advanced study in the mathematical, physical, medical, biological, engineering, social, or other sciences at the institution of the recipient's choice.
Deadline: Dec. 31, 2006
The annual award recognizes an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by the National Science Foundation.Candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and must be 35 years of age or younger or not more than 7 years beyond receipt of the Ph.D. degree by December 31 of the year in which they are nominated. Candidates should have demonstrated exceptional individual achievements in scientific or engineering research of sufficient quality to place them at the forefront of their peers. Criteria include originality, innovation, and significant impact on the field.
The New York Academy of Medicine
http://www.nyam.org/grants/rudin.shtml
The Lewis Rudin Glaucoma Prize of The New York Academy of Medicine was established in 1995 and is funded by the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation. The prize is awarded by the Academy for the most outstanding glaucoma work published during the previous year.
Amount of award: $50,000
Deadline: May 1, 2007
Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
International Awards: The Genetics Prize, The Neuroscience Prize
Amount of awards: $500,000
Deadline: Dec. 31, 2006
The Genetics Prize
A gold medal and $500,000 cash prize is awarded for fundamental insights in the field of genetics. These may include original discoveries in genomic organization, function, regulation, variation, and transmission.
The Neuroscience Prize
A $500,000 cash prize is awarded to a leading scientist, or group of scientists, for distinguished work in the field of the brain, nervous system and the spinal cord.
Robarts Research Institute
J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine This year's Taylor Prize will be granted to a scientist who has made outstanding contributions in the area of Molecular Imaging of Cell Signaling.
Amount of award: $10,000
Deadline: May 15, 2007
The Shaw Prize Foundation in Hong Kong
http://www.shawprize.org/en/index.html
The Prize honours individuals, regardless of race, nationality and religious
belief, who have achieved significant breakthrough in academic and scientific
research or application, and whose work has resulted in a positive and
profound impact on mankind. 3 prizes will be offered: Astronomy, Life Science
and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences
Amount of award: $1 million
Deadline: TBA
University of Pittsburg
http://www.health.pitt.edu
Dickson Prize in Medicine (leading American investigator
in biomedical research) (Strong preference for researcherrs doing pioneering,
paradigm-shifting work that is not yet highly rewarded as it undoubtedly
will be someday.)
Amount of award: $50,000
Deadline: TBA
University of Southern California
John and Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement Prizes
are awarded for any one of the following: the protection, maintenance,
improvement or understanding of an ecological or an environmental
condition anywhere in the world; the discovery, further development,
improvement, or understanding of known or new sources of energy;
medical discoveries or achievement with such worldwide implications
that they significantly benefit environmental aspects of human health.
Self nominations are not accepted.
Amount of award: $200,000
Deadline: Sept. TBA
The Welch Foundation
Welch Award in Chemistry- -any person can be considered
for the award who has made important chemical research contributions
which have a significant, positive influence on mankind. The award
is intended to recognize contributions that have not previously been
rewarded in a similar manner.
Amount of award: $300,000
Deadline: Feb. 1, 2007
Wiley Foundation
Wiley Prize
in Biomedical Sciences This prize is intended to recognize
contributions that have opened new fields of research, or advanced
novel concepts or their applications in a particular biomedical discipline.
Amount of award: $25,000
Deadline: July 31, 2007
Wolf
Prize
Wolf Prizes in Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics The
following limitations are imposed by our Rules : a person cannot be nominated
by himself/herself; the prize is awarded to individuals, not institutions,
and it is presented to the recipient in person in Jerusalem. The nominators
are therefore requested not to propose any candidate who, to the best of
their knowledge, may not be able to attend the Ceremony.
Amount of award: $100,000
Deadline: Aug. 31, 2007
Additional online resource:
International Congress of Distinguished Awards (2006 roster)
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