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going to move the needle, so to speak. Business as usual is not
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
good enough. What you bring to the table should be unique. This

can only happen if you have a thorough grasp of the ield, the

players, and their contributions. It is better to go with a multiple PI 2015 Discovery Award

approach. For the junior investigator, it may be dificult at irst to Deadline: May 4, 2015

establish the right collaboration with an established investigator,

but if you persist and work at it, you will get there. Try to ind the
SFRBM is now calling for nominations from
best match in your own place or in another institution who can
members for the 2015 Discovery Award. This
complement your proposal by expanding the scope and strength of
award recognizes signiicant seminal or high-
the research strategy. This involves multiple research discussions,
impact work that has been completed within

joint publications, and mutual harmony and understanding, to list
the past ive years.
a few prerequisites. Always operate with an understanding and

willingness to develop into a NIH, NSF, or other proposal. More The award includes a featured lecture at

importantly, never stop thinking and writing, and discussing your SFRBM’s 22nd Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.

ideas with trusted colleagues!
• $2,500 cash award

DOT: How has science/research changed during your life as a
• Confers a special title of Fellow of the Society for Free Radical Biology
scientist?
and Medicine (F-SFRBM)

With funding getting tighter and restructuring of study sections and • Paid travel expenses to SFRBM 2015

changes in grant format (signiicance, innovation, and impact), one

has to consider and reconsider every sentence in your proposal, • A bronze medal with stand

and make sure you are telling a compelling story. In the past, your
• Invitation to publish a review article for Free Radical Biology &
accomplishments (as determined by publications, sound science,
Medicine, SFRBM’s journal, celebrating their scientiic contributions
and logical hypotheses) would have been adequate. Now the bar
and the presentation of the award
has been raised high, and is getting higher and higher. Proposals

• One-page bio and picture prominently displayed in the SFRBM 2015
are reviewed by three to four reviewers, and invariably they
Abstract/Program book
have different expertise. You have to be strongly mechanistic,

physiologically relevant, clinically relevant, and so forth. That Nominations for these awards will be taken through May 4, 2015. For

is why using a multiple PI approach, and carefully chosen co-
more information regarding nominations, please click here.
investigators and collaborators to ill in the knowledge gaps

and complement your weaknesses, is crucial for a competitive

PAST RECIPIENTS
proposal that is scientiically rigorous, focused and relevant.

2013 - D. Allan Butterield, Ph.D., F-SFRBM

2011 - Rafael Radi, MD, Ph.D.

2009 - J. David Lambeth, MD, Ph.D.

2008 - Joe McCord, Ph.D. & Irwin Fridovich, Ph.D.

2007 - Robert Floyd, Ph.D.

2006 - Jack Roberts II, MD & Jason Morrow, MD

SFRBM Newsletter // April 2015 // Radical View • Dr. Balaraman Kalyanaraman

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