Awards Listing
Inspiration and Resilience Award
Introduced in 2022, the Inspiration and Resilience Award is presented annually to an outstanding individual who has achieved remarkable advances in their area considering limited resources, funding, or lack of opportunities available to them.
The recipient is given:
- A grant to attend a relevant event or training course
- A trophy
- The opportunity to present at a Society event or webinar
- The opportunity to be mentored by one of the Biochemical Society Journal’s Associate Editors
- An invitation to submit an article to one of our journals, with any fees waived
- The opportunity to be a guest editor of a themed issue of a Biochemical Society Journal, published by Portland Press
- The opportunity to join a Research Area or The Biochemist Editorial Board and help shape the Society’s content
Eligibility Criteria:
- Awarded annually
- Awarded to an outstanding individual who has achieved remarkable advances in their area considering limited resources, funding, or lack of opportunities available to them
- Nominees must demonstrate commitment to build, support, and nurture future talent
- Nominees would typically be early to mid-career
- Nominees can be either international or UK based
- This award is only open to individuals
The Awards Committee will consider the following aspects of all nominations for the Inspiration and Resilience Award as appropriate:
- Originality of research
- Impact of research
- Challenges overcome e.g., lack of resources, funding, equipment
- Quality of outputs – publications and/or patents and/or software
- Commitment to build, support, and nurture future talent e.g., mentorship
- Other indicators of esteem demonstrated by the nominator
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