Friedrich-Miescher-Award 2012: Call for Applications/Nominations
To commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the discovery of nucleic acids the Swiss Society for Biochemistry has created the Friedrich-Miescher-Award. The prize is intended to honour young biochemists and is donated by the Friedrich-Miescher-Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation in Basel.
The following guidelines apply for nominations:
- The Friedrich-Miescher-Award may be awarded once every year to a young scientist for outstanding achievements in biochemistry.
- Candidates are eligible who have not yet reached the age of 40 years (for women with children 42) on October 1st, 2012.
- Preference will be given to candidates with a documented record of independent research.
- The scientific work must have been carried out in Switzerland or by Swiss scientists abroad.
Applications or nominations, including a letter stating the relevance of the candidate's scientific work, his/her CV, list of publication and embedded links to the four most relevant publications should be submitted by November 1st, 2011 preferably by e-mail as a single PDF file to the secretary of the Swiss Society for Biochemistry: Dr. Daniel Legler [daniel.legler@bitg.ch], Biotechnology Institute Thurgau (BITg) at the University of Konstanz, Unterseestrasse 47, CH-8280 Kreuzlingen.
The list of all awardees up to now is available on a separate page (see navigation link to the left)