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AWTRS Young Investigator Award
Applications are now open for the
2019 AWTRS Young Investigator Award
The award recognises outstanding research achievement by Early Career Researchers and aims to promote and encourage emerging young investigators in the wound and tissue repair field.
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Eligibility
To be eligible for these awards, applicants must:
- be enrolled as a PhD student or have their PhD awarded within 7 years. Career interruptions such as illness, family and carer responsibilities will be taken into account if more than the prescribed period has passed since the award of their PhD (have an award of PhD date together with allowable career interruption(s) on or after 7 October 2012)
- be a financial member of Australasian Wound & Tissue Repair Society.
- not have been a previous recipient of an AWTRS Young Investigator Award.
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Selection Criteria
The principal selection criteria will be the quality of the candidate's research track record, relative to opportunity, and their contribution to the field of Wound and Tissue Repair, in any of the following areas:
- number and quality of peer-reviewed journal publications, including books and book chapters.
- awards, prizes, grants and fellowships.
- other forms of research activity such as conference presentations (oral or poster presentation selected from abstract), invited speaker
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The Application Process
Applicants may self-nominate or be nominated by another person.
The application must include a:
- Brief cover letter addressing eligibility, with an executive summary of no more than one page summarising career accomplishments and goals, and your contribution to the field of Wound and Tissue Repair
- Current CV which should include education, peer-reviewed journal publications (include impact factor, ranking within discipline and citations), conference presentations (separated into session chair, invited talk, talks elected from abstracts, posters), and other accepted publications, acquired awards and grants. (maximum 3 pages)
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The Award
The recipient of the 2019 AWTRS Young Investigators Award will be announced during the Tissue Repair Symposium, at the discretion of the selection committee, to an individual who have made a significant research contribution to the field of Wound and Tissue Repair. The recipient will be awarded a desk plaque and registration to the 2020 AWTRS conference.
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Applications must be submitted electronically to
Dr Brooke Farrugia (brooke.farrugia@unimelb.edu.au)
by 11:59 pm AEST Monday 7 October 2019
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