Online applications are invited for the 2008 Eppendorf Award for young European investigators, presented by Eppendorf in partnership with the scientific journal Nature
Open to scientists no older than 35 years of age, the euro15,000 prize is intended to encourage and support the work of promising European biomedical researchers.
According to Jorn Peplow, Eppendorf corporate communications: "This prestigious prize was established in 1995 to celebrate Eppendorf's 50th anniversary, symbolising the close links between the company and the field of biomedicine.
"The criteria on which entries are evaluated include creativity, the ability to work independently, the significance of research results for the field of medicine and the successful practical application of the research approach".
Applications for the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators 2008, which must be submitted online by 30 June 2008, need to include a short CV, a list of publications, a maximum of three papers to be evaluated and a 300-word essay summarising the papers.
The 2008 prize-winner will be selected by a completely independent committee chaired by Professor Kai Simons, managing director of the Max Plank Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.
Eppendorf will provide full support for the winner to attend the award presentation on 20 November 2008 at the Medica congress in Dusseldorf, Germany.
The 2007 award was won by Monica Bettencourt-Dias, a group leader at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia in Oerias, Portugal.
Her pioneering research on centrosome biogenesis opens up new avenues for understanding cell cycle control and for cancer therapy.
