Young Bioinformatician Award

During the NBIC Conference on March 29 and 30, NBIC presented the first edition of the NBIC Young Bioinformatician Award for a young researcher who has significantly contributed to bioinformatics or the bioinformatics community in the Netherlands. The winner was awarded with a cash prize of 2.500 Euro funded by NBIC BioRange and BioWise programmes.

Winner of the NBIC Young Bioinformatician Award 2010: Dr. Lude Franke, University of Groningen

Criteria

The candidate must not be more than 30 years old at the last day of the NBIC conference and must have conducted his/her research primarily in a Dutch institute.

Other criteria that might be considered by the award committee are:

The candidate significantly contributed to the idea of the research;
The research of the candidate resulted in novel or improved bioinformatics methodologies;
The research of the candidate advanced life sciences research;
The candidate independently conducted the research;
The research resulted in a scientific publication, software application or database;
The work of the candidate has given broad visibility of bioinformatics in the life sciences field;
The candidate has otherwise significantly contributed to bioinformatics or the bioinformatics community in the Netherlands.

Procedure

The award ceremony was helf on Day 2 of the NBIC Conference (March 30) and was followed by a lecture by the winner of the award. Some weeks before the NBIC conference, group leaders have been to nominate candidates.

Submission: Currently the submission has been closed, the submission deadline was February 15, 2010.

Each nomination must be accompanied with:

Name and affiliation of candidate
Motivation for nomination by group leader of candidate (1 A4)
Curriculum Vitae of the candidate

Award Committee

Each year the chair will leave the Award Committee after the NBIC conference and invite a new member to the committee. For 2010 the members of the committee were: