GRG/AGA Young Investigator Basic Research Award

Deadline: March 21, 2008

Application Instructions/ Award Description

The recipient will receive a $3,000 prize. The award will be presented during GRG Spring Symposium at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW®) 2008 in San Diego, California.

ELIGIBILITY

Qualified candidates are those individuals who have MD, PhD or MD/PhD degrees and have performed major basic research in the field of gastroenterology and/or hepatology. The recipient must be an active member of the GRG and the AGA at the time of the presentation of the award. Candidates must be independent investigators who have held a faculty position for less than nine (9) years. The award will ordinarily be made to a single individual. In exceptional situations, the awards committee may recommend that the award be divided between two investigators.

SELECTION CRITERIA

The award recipient will be chosen on originality, innovative insight into a major scientific problem in gastroenterology, and the significance of his/her work to an area of research in gastroenterology or other scientific or clinical discipline.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

All nomination packages should emailed to awards@gastro.org by midnight of March 21.

• A curriculum vitae.
• Two (2) nominating letters. Up to three (3) additional supporting letters may be provided.
• A detailed letter signed by each nominator supporting the nomination and detailing all of the following points:
  • A brief summary of the candidate’s training and background.
  • Specific citation, with references to his/her published work, of the achievements of the candidate and how they relate to those of other major contributions to the field. Particularly, cite examples of confirmation of the candidate’s work by the subsequent research of others.
  • Any major technical or methodological contribution of the candidate such as new, more sensitive or more precise analytical methods or adaptations to measurement techniques of new principles.
  • Specifically delineate how the candidate functions within his/her research group as the intellectual and motivational force. In situations in which the candidate has worked very closely with one or two other individuals over an extended period of time, the selection committee needs to understand the relative role of the candidate to such collaborations.
  • Evidence of respect for the candidate’s work in his/her field of research.
  • Relevance to and impact of the candidate’s work in his/her field of research.
  • Broad scientific implications of the work to any other disciplines, clinical or basic.
  • A summary of the significant research accomplishments other than the major research to be recognized by the award.
  • The nominator’s own qualifications to interpret and evaluate the candidate and his/her work or research.
  • Important relevant personal characteristics of the candidate, such as the ability to attract and develop young scientists.
  • In exceptional situations, two individuals from the same research group may be nominated as a team, if it is clear that the contributions of each were distinct and essential to the whole. A separate nomination form for each such candidate must be completed, but a single letter may be written if all points emphasized above are covered.
  • An explicit statement that the nominee is or will be a member of both the GRG and AGA at the time of the awar

Please combine all required nomination documents into one PDF file. Please email the nominations to awards@gastro.org by midnight of March 21. Questions regarding the nomination submission process should be addressed to telephone (301) 222-4012 or e-mailed to awards@gastro.org.

President
Jonathan Kauntz, MD
Loas Angeles, CA

Past President
Vincent Yang, MD, PhD
Atlanta, GA

Steering Committee
Nicholas Davidson, MD
St. Louis, MO

Jay Goldstein, MD, AGAF
Chicago, IL

Gregory Gores, MD, AGAF
Rochester, MN

Mrinalini Rao, PhD
Chicago, IL

Shanthi Sitaraman, MD, PhD
Atlanta, GA

Rhonda Souza, MD, AGAF
Dallas, TX

Ex-Officio
Rifat Pamukcu, MD
Spring House, PA

International Liaisons
Alastair Watson, MD, FRCP
Liverpool, UK

Toshi Hibi, MD
Tokyo, Japan

Trainee Representative
Scott Smith, MD

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