Office of Research
Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists 2019
The New York Academy of Sciences and the Blavatnik Family Foundation are pleased to announce that nominations will open for the 2020 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists on September 25, 2019. Nominations will be accepted until November 13, 2019.
Now entering its seventh year, the Blavatnik National Awards recognize and celebrate America’s most innovative and promising faculty-rank scientists and engineers in three disciplinary categories: Chemistry, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Life Sciences. Each year, one nominee in each category is awarded $250,000 in unrestricted funding and honored at the Blavatnik National Awards ceremony at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City as a Blavatnik National Awards Laureate.
Nominees must:
- Have been born in or after 1978;
- Hold a doctorate degree (PhD, DPhil, MD, DDS, DVM, etc.);
- Currently hold a tenured or tenure-track academic faculty position (or equivalent) at your institution;
- Currently conduct research as a principal investigator in one of the disciplinary categories in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, or Chemistry.
The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists strives for nominee equality and diversity, and strongly encourages the nomination of women and members of other historically underrepresented groups in science and engineering.
Age limit exceptions will be considered by the Academy in exceptional circumstances upon a detailed written submission from the nominating institution received by the Academy at blavatnikawards@nyas.org no later than Wednesday, October 30, 2019. For more information, please contact us at blavatnikawards@nyas.org. We strongly encourage institutions considering nominating candidates born prior to 1978 to contact us as early as possible during the nomination period.
For more information, please refer to the updated 2020 Blavatnik National Awards nomination guidelines and our Nomination Materials and Instruction page. The nominations portal will be accessible through the Blavatnik Awards website during the nomination period.
Application Instructions
Please submit:
- a one‐ page description of research accomplishments, and please note the disciplinary category
- Full CV of the PI (not an NIH or NSF biosketch)
- A letter of support from the Dean or Chair. This letter of support signifies that the Dean or Chair have ensured that the nominee and application are likely to be of sufficient quality to be competitive nationally
to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday September 26. 2019. Full proposals are due to the sponsor 11/13/19, if given the go ahead by the Proposal Review Committee.
Inquiries and Contact Information
Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.
For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.