The Blavatnik National Awards honor America’s most innovative young faculty-rank scientists and engineers.
These awards celebrate the past accomplishments and future potential of young faculty members working in the three disciplinary categories of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry.
Every year, one Blavatnik National Awards Laureate in each disciplinary category will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds, and additional nominees will be recognized as Finalists.
Duke is invited to nominate up to three outstanding young faculty members, one in each of the three disciplinary categories.
Deadlines:
EVALUATION CRITERIA
Nominees and their work as independent investigators will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
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The nominee must:
In spite of tremendous advancements in scientific research, information, and education, opportunities are still not equally available to all. Women, persons with disabilities, and individuals identifying as Black, American Indian, or Hispanic/Latinx continue to be underrepresented in STEM fields1,2.
The Blavatnik Awards strongly encourages all those submitting nominations to the Awards—including institutional nominators, Scientific Advisory Council members, and past Blavatnik Awards Laureates—to diversify the population of candidates nominated for this Award.
Candidates for the Blavatnik National Awards must be nominated by their institutions—self-nominations are not allowed.
Through the generosity of the Blavatnik Family Foundation, each Laureate will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds as well as an invitation to publish a review or perspective article in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences on the topic for which he/she is being recognized.
Owing to the sponsor's restriction on the number of applications that may be submitted from Duke, anyone wishing to pursue nomination should submit the following materials as one PDF via the upload feature on the ORS website.
The following documents are described in the Guidelines found here: http://blavatnikawards.org/awards/national-awards/nomination-guidelines/
1. Coversheet that includes:
a. First and last name and date of birth mm/dd/yyyy
b. Your official title
c. Disciplinary category (Please see the Blavatnik guidelines for disciplinary category and subcategory: http://blavatnikawards.org/awards/national-awards/disciplines
2. Curriculum Vitae - 4 pages (see example as well as the Guidelines on the Blavatnik site)
3. Rationale for Nomination from your Chair: A 200-word statement that explains why the nominee has been selected as the institutional nominee based on his/her strong record of significant independent scientific contributions, early career success, and promise of sustained or accelerated progress in the future.
4. 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.
Applicants will need to submit internal materials through My Research Proposal.(Code ILN) https://www.grantinterface.com/sl/xUOWXv
Instructions for creating an account (if needed) and submitting your materials: https://www.ctsi.duke.edu/myresearchproposal
