Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators opens for entry

Deadline is 15 January 2012

Young researchers working in Europe are invited to apply for the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators.

Researchers who are less than 35 have until 15 January 2012 to apply.

The award, inaugurated in 1995, acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts.

An independent expert committee chaired by Kai Simons of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, in Dresden, Germany, will choose the winner.

The successful entrant will receive €15,000 in prize money and an invitation to the prize-giving ceremony at the EMBL Advanced Training Centre in Heidelberg, Germany on 9 May 2012.

In addition, he/she will be invited to Eppendorf in Hamburg and coverage of his/her work will be published in Nature magazine and in a podcast.

The official registration portal is at www.eppendorf.com/award/application. Only online registrations will be accepted.

Full details on the Eppendorf Award, the selection criteria and past award winners, are available at www.eppendorf.com/award.

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