Nominations for the 2024 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar are invited through Aug. 7.
Candidates for the Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar are graduate students in biomedical sciences at Vanderbilt (PhD or MD/PhD track) who have completed the qualifying exam and have at least one year left to complete the PhD degree.
Competitive nominees demonstrate excellent leadership qualities through their research and service to the scientific community, as well as characteristics that exhibit outstanding potential to impact medicine through research during their careers.
The scholar receives a $1,000 cash prize and will be mentored for a year by the 2024 recipient of the Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, Sarah Tishkoff, PhD, the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor in Genetics and Biology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Tishkoff, who also directs the Penn Center for Global Genomics & Health Equity in the Perelman School of Medicine, is internationally known for groundbreaking work in evolutionary genetics and diversity that has broad implications for understanding and treating human disease.
The Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar will be recognized during Tishkoff’s Discovery Lecture, to be held at VUMC in the spring of 2025.
Nominations are accepted from department chairs or program directors in the biomedical sciences, as well as directors of graduate studies and faculty mentors.
Nomination materials should include the nominee’s CV, a nomination letter from the faculty mentor, adviser or nominator, a copy of the nominee’s thesis proposal and a committee report from the nominee’s qualifying exam.
Nomination materials should be submitted by Aug. 7 as a single PDF to vumcresearchenterprise@vumc.org.
For more information, visit the Office of Research at https://www.vumc.org/oor.