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CALL FOR APPLICATION 2017
ALBERT SZENT-GYÖRGYI YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD
The New York Hungarian Scientific Society (nymtt.org), a non-for-profit charitable 501 (c)(3) organization, is accepting applications for the Albert Szent-Györgyi Young Investigator Award supporting original research by Hungarian scientists living in Hungary or in neighboring countries. The Award was estabilished in 2015 and is funded by the generous support of the American-Hungarian scientific community.
ELIGIBILITY: The application is open for graduate students working for their PhD degree or scientists with PhD under the age of 35, in the fields of natural sciences, medical sciences, and mathematics.
AWARD: Total value of the avards: $11,000 USD.
Winner (1): $3,000 USD.
Finalists (2): 2x $1,500 USD
Gizella Solti Award: $5,000 USD, a special award estabilished by Dr. Livia Solti-Bohman.
Eligeble costs and reporting requirements: Awards can be used to support research at the discretion of the awardee. Awardees are required to submit a final report (maximum 1000 words) within a year about activities and achivements of the awardee during this period.
APPLICATION PROCESS: Applicants should submit the following:
• one-page summary of their former research (maximum 300 words),
• short resume with a list of publications (maximum 600 words),
• short (maximum 5 minutes) youtube video explaining why the applicant should receive the award.
The documents and a link to the video should be sent to tudosklub@gmail.com before midnight (Central European Time) December 1, 2017. All submitted documents and video should be in English .
ANNOUNCEMENT: The winner and the finalists will be announced on December 14th , 2017 during the annual fundraising gala, organized at and supported by the Consulate General of Hungary, NY. The winner and finalists will also be notified via email. Please email tudosklub@gmail.com with any questions or comments about the award. Please visit nymtt.org/Szent_Gyorgyi_Award.html for information about the previous awardees.
New York Hungarian Scientific Society
New York-i Magyar Tudományos Társaság
223 East 52nd St, New York, NY 10022, USA
http://www.nymtt.org
Albert Szent-Györgyi Young Investigator Award, 2016
$3,000 -Bálint Csörgő, PhD
Synthetic and Systems Biology Unit, Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
Finalists, each receive $1,500
Balázs Szappanos, PhD
Synthetic and Systems Biology Unit, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
Valter P. Pfliegler, PhD
Department of Biotechnology and Microbiology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
Dénes Zádori MD, PhD
Department of Neurology, University of Szeged, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Clinical Center, Szeged, Hungary
Albert Szent-Györgyi Young Investigator Award 2015
$3,000 - Viktória Lázár, PhD (introduction video)
“Exploiting the Achilles’ heels of the antibiotic resistant bacteria”
Evolutionary Systems Biology Group, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research
Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
Finalists, each receive $1,500
Peter Raffai, PhD (introduction video)
“A Statistical Method to Search for Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei” Institute of Physics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Attila Kövecsi, MD, PhD Student
“Angiogenesis, tumor histogenesis and molecular pathways”
Department of Pathology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Tîrgu Mureș/Marosvásárhely Romania.