📓 Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists

Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists

Science/AAAS and SciLifeLab, a coordinated effort of four universities, have joined forces in creating the Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists. Both Science/AAAS and SciLifeLab recognize that global economic health is dependent upon a vibrant research community, and we need to incent our best and brightest to continue in their chosen fields of research. Considering the difficult economic environment, we feel it is important to provide extra encouragement to young scientists as they begin their scientific careers. Each year, the grand prize winner will receive a prize of US$30,000; each of the three category winners will receive US$10,000. The grand prize-winning essay will be published in Science and essays from the three category winners will be published online. Science/AAAS and SciLifeLab look forward to reviewing the research findings from future entrants.

Read more about the prize here.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world’s largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journals, Science, Science Translational Medicine, Science Signaling, Science Advances, Science Immunology, and Science Robotics. AAAS was founded in 1848 and includes some 254 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science, founded by Thomas Edison, has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of 228,000.

The non-profit AAAS—www.aaas.org—is open to all and fulfills its mission to “advance science and serve society” through initiatives in science policy, international programs, science education, and more. Science further participates in various efforts to provide free access for scientists in the world’s poorest countries.

SciLifeLab is a Swedish national resource of unique technologies and expertise available to life scientists, closely intertwined with our community of researchers in areas such as biomedicine, ecology and evolution. SciLifeLab started out in 2010 as a joint effort between four universities: Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University and Uppsala University. Today, we support research activities across all major Swedish universities, with official SciLifeLab sites in Linköping, Lund, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Umeå and Uppsala.

SciLifeLab makes it possible to better understand life. Here, life at the molecular level is examined to understand cells, molecules, and thereby humans and other life forms. With increased knowledge, we can address societal challenges in health, environment, climate, and bioenergy. SciLifeLab offers exclusive technology—accessible to all—a meeting place for researchers to collaborate across boundaries and break new ground. A Swedish initiative from which the whole world can benefit.

Questions/Inquiries

SciLifeLabPrize@aaas.org