Nominations open for ASCI 2023 Early-Career Awards (YPSA & E-Gen)
Nominations for the ASCI’s 2023 Early-Career Awards – the Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) and Emerging-Generation Awards (E-Gen) – are open through December 5, 2022, at 11:59 pm Eastern (extended from November 21).
With these awards, the ASCI seeks to recognize early-career physician-scientists who have made notable achievements in their research, and to encourage and inspire them through their participation in the ASCI physician-scientist community.
Early-Career Award benefits include:
- an honorarium
- registration to the AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting during the award year
- 2 years of longitudinal early-career specific programming including Leadership Development Workshops, networking opportunities and topical panels with ASCI members
Click here to view a webinar (originally presented on October 19, 2022) about these nomination processes.
Nominee eligibility criteria:
| YPSA: | E-Gen: |
| – should preferably have a first faculty / institutional appointment within the past 5 years; if not within this range, nominees should note that extenuating circumstance(s) apply and may provide detail if they wish – have a current NIH / comparable, foundation, or society-sponsored career development award (see nomination form for details) – does not yet have current NIH R01 / equivalent independent project funding – must be nominated by an ASCI member – may name a supporting contact, this person serves as a second reference and does not supply a letter of support. |
– should have completed their MD 3 to 9 years ago; if not within this range, nominees should note that extenuating circumstance(s) apply and may provide detail if they wish – will have demonstrated creative promise during research training – is currently meaningfully engaged in immersive research – does not yet have an independent NIH K-level / equivalent award – must be nominated by an ASCI member – may name a supporting contact, this person serves as a second reference and does not supply a letter of support. |
The nominator must be an active, senior, emeritus, international or honorary ASCI member in good standing and must start the nomination:
- Access your member account
- Go to the “Nominations” tab, then click to the applicable nomination section
- Select “I’m the nominator” option
- Search for your nominee:
- If found, click on “Create nomination”
- If no result is found, provide and save the requested information (first name, last name, and email address), then click on “Create nomination” for the newly created nominee in the “Results” section
- At the top of the nomination form, click on “Send access notification to the nominee at: <email>”
- Provide a 250-word limit statement regarding the nominee
- Submit the statement, which can be done regardless of whether the nominee’s part of the nomination is completed
The nominee receives an email with information to access her/his part of the nomination and then must provide the following:
| YPSA | E-Gen |
| – nominee contact, education, headshot, and funding information – a brief NIH biosketch (as a PDF) – a completed ASCI demographics profile |
– nominee contact, education, headshot, and funding information – a brief NIH biosketch (as a PDF), using the opening paragraph as a personal scientific vision statement for this award – a completed ASCI demographics profile |
Note that the nominee can submit this information regardless of whether the nominator’s part of the nomination is completed.
Contact programs@the-asci.org with any questions.