Submit a NominationNominations for the 2009 Tech Awards are now being accepted.The Tech Awards accepts nominations year-round. Nominations received after March 27, 2009 will be considered for the 2010 Tech Awards.
The Tech Museum Awards program inspires global engagement in applying technology to humanity's most pressing problems by recognizing individuals, organizations, and companies that are utilizing innovative technology solutions to address the most urgent issues facing our planet.The Tech Laureates are profoundly improving the human condition through the use of technology. It is the goal of The Tech Museum Awards to showcase their compelling stories and reward their brilliant accomplishments.Nominations and applications are evaluated according to the following criteria: * The technology application significantly improves the human condition in one of the five award areas: economic development, education, environment, equality, or health. * A serious problem or challenge with global significance is addressed by this use of technology. * The application of this technology, which may be either a new invention or an innovative use of an existing technology, makes a noteworthy contribution that surpasses previous or current solutions. * The technology application has the potential to serve as an inspiration or model for further innovation. * The technology application is in the field and has demonstrated a measurable benefit.
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Institutional Program Unifying Population and Laboratory Based Sciences
Application deadlines for 2010 awards: Letter of Intent: March 2, 2009 by 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time Full Application (by invitation only): May 15, 2009 by 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time By electronic application only. Five-year institutional training awards provide $500,000 a year to bridge the gap between the population and computational sciences and the laboratory-based biological sciences. The award will support the training of researchers between existing concentrations of research strength in population approaches to human health and in basic biological sciences. The goal is to establish training programs by partnering researchers working in schools of medicine and schools (or academic divisions) of public health.
Eligibility Understanding human health will be a focal priority for the programs that are funded. There is ample room for building on institutional strengths to achieve this focus, for example: institutional interests in chronic diseases, autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases, genetic diseases, toxicology and environmental exposures, reproductive health, and other areas where questions relating to human health are ripe for exploration at both the population and molecular scales. Likewise, institutional strengths in applied mathematics and modeling, statistics, genomics, bioinformatics and other informatics and data-driven sciences including geography and demographics, and phenomic approaches could provide excellent foundations for programs which encourage such work, as would strengths in population biology; epidemiology; human or disease ecology, anthropology, econometrics, and other population-focused quantitative fields. Supported programs will train graduate students to the Ph.D. level, but programs may additionally propose giving training access to postdoctoral fellows, medical students, medical residents, masters students, undergraduates, or other kinds of trainees. Some examples of problems where such an approach would be beneficial include but are not limited to multifactorial disease processes evolution of and relationships between host, pathogen, vector, and reservoirs biomarker identification and validation effects of environmental exposure to toxins, allergens, and immunogens Proposals Degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada may submit applications. Proposals must be driven by core components within medical and public health schools, but beyond those required components, departments or centers located within non-medical parts of a university, existing inter-institutional collaboratives, research museums, free-standing research institutes, and other non-profit institutions that provide advanced-level training are all acceptable as potential additional partners. Dental, osteopathic, and veterinary medical schools are appropriate applicants. Comparative medicine and animal science departments are advised to discuss their planned proposal with the program officer to ensure that their proposal will be human-focused enough to be competitive. Proposals that cross institutional boundaries are encouraged. Research groups working at national laboratories and within the federal government are allowable as partners, but funding to students doing research within these institutions must be channeled through an appropriate degree-granting institution. For-profit companies may not participate in the application, but could be valuable partners in such training programs. Proposals that may offer students access to research opportunities involving work in or data from the for-profit sector are welcome.
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Career Awards at the Scientific InterfaceApplication Deadline: April 15, 2009 by 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time By electronic application only. Five-year awards provide $500,000 to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of faculty service. These awards are intended to foster the early career development of researchers with backgrounds in the physical/mathematical/computational sciences whose work addresses biological questions. These awards are open to U.S. and Canadian citizens or permanent residents. There is limited eligibility for temporary residents.
Eligibility Career Awards at the Scientific Interface provide $500,000 over five years to support up to two years of advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of a faculty appointment. Candidate eligibility and institutional nomination requirements are set out below. Candidates Candidates must hold a Ph.D. degree in one of the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, statistics, or engineering. Exceptions will be made only if the applicant can demonstrate significant expertise in one of these areas, evidenced by publications or advanced course work. Candidates must have completed at least 12 months but not more than 48 months of postdoctoral research at the time of application. No exceptions to this requirement will be made. Candidates cannot hold nor have accepted, either in writing or verbally, a faculty appointment as a tenure-track assistant professor at the time of application. Candidates must be committed to a full-time career in research as an independent investigator at a North American degree-granting institution. Citizens of the U.S. and Canada are eligible. Non-citizen Permanent Residents of the U.S. and Canada are eligible with certification by the nominating institution. Temporary residents of the U.S. are eligible, however see “Institutional Nomination Guidelines” for restrictions. Temporary residents of Canada are not eligible. All candidates must be nominated by accredited, degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada. Institutional Nominations A degree-granting institution—including its medical school, graduate schools, and all affiliated hospitals and research institutes—may nominate up to two candidates for the award. To encourage applications from women, institutions that nominate a female candidate will be allowed three nominations. To encourage applications from members of underrepresented minority groups, institutions may have a single additional nomination if they nominate an African-American, Hispanic, or Native American candidate. No more than one of an institution’s nominees may be a temporary resident of the U.S. No exceptions will be made. Institutions with questions about the eligibility or number of nominees must contact BWF in advance of the application deadline. BWF will make no exceptions to its policies. For temporary residents, institutions must certify that the applicant’s visa will allow him/her to remain in the U.S. long enough for him/her to be productive on the project. Note—If a grant is awarded and the individual’s visa does not allow for such a stay, BWF may terminate the grant. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) may nominate candidates from its intramural program, with the same restrictions listed above. The NIH will support these award recipients during the postdoctoral years, and BWF will support them for the faculty portion of the award only, for a total of $360,000. Postdoctoral fellows at the NIH should contact its Office of Intramural Studies for information about its nomination procedures. During the postdoctoral and faculty periods, Grants must be made to degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada on behalf of the award recipient. Award recipients are required to devote at least 80 percent of their time to research-related activities. Indirect costs may not be charged against BWF grants. Burroughs Wellcome Fund Post Office Box 13901 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3901 Telephone: (919) 991-5100 Fax: (919) 991-5160
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