The Blavatnik National Awards honor America’s most
innovative young faculty-rank scientists and engineers. The Blavatnik National
Awards recognize excellence in three disciplinary categories: Life Sciences;
Physical Sciences & Engineering; and Chemical Sciences. Every year, one
Blavatnik National Awards Laureate in each category will receive $250,000 in unrestricted
funds. The prize money is given directly to the Laureate. Additional nominees
are recognized as Finalists, five per category, and each will receive $15,000
in unrestricted funds. The laureates are responsible for any taxes on the prize money.

For this limited submission, please submit the following:

1. Limited Submission Cover page

2. Full CV containing the following information (There is no
page limit for the CV, but it is request that one use as few pages as possible
to encompass the required information)

• Name, current institution(s), and position title
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  Education and training, including postdoctoral training
  and/or residency.  Please include names
  of previous advisors.
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  Employment history
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  Honors and awards, including granting organizations and
  years in which they were received.
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  All peer-reviewed publications from independent career:
  List only published work or manuscripts in press authored during independent
  career
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  Do not include manuscripts that are submitted or in
  preparation, or those published during graduate or postdoctoral studies.
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  Conference abstracts and proceedings should only be
  included if they are the primary way of disseminating new results in the
  nominee’s field, such as in computer science and mathematics.
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  Select patents & patent applications, including
  patent title, 1-2 sentence synopsis, and year submitted / approved.
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  Research grants:
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  List funding for the main ongoing and completed projects
  on which the nominee is a PI or a co-PI.
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  Include name of funding mechanism, funder, and amount
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  For grants on which the nominee is a co-PI, include total
  amount of grant as well as amount awarded to nominee
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  Scientific Leadership, including any significant roles in
  the greater academic community. This includes major editorial responsibilities,
  public outreach activities, conference organization, institutional
  administrative responsibilities (e.g. Department Chair, departmental
  committee), contribution to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and
  service on external committees. Please list these in the CV, and elaborate on
  them in the Professional Service and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement.
• Invited talks and lectures, listing notable invited talks
  from the nominee’s independent career, including keynote addresses and named
  lectures, with year given and inviting organization/institution.

4. Professional Service and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Statement

The nominee is required to submit an open-ended statement
(maximum of one page) describing their outreach activities and/or professional
service, with particular focus on activities and service related to increasing
diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the scientific community. Topics to
discuss include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Teaching and Mentoring: Commitment to teaching and
  mentoring students, especially to utilizing practices that better serve those
  of demographics and/or social backgrounds historically underrepresented in
  science and engineering;
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  Collaboration and Leadership: Leadership or involvement
  in committees, task force groups, professional societies, and organizations;
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  Service, Engagement, and/or Outreach: A record of
  community engagement or outreach activities (e.g., volunteer activities,
  communicating science to the public);
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  Research: Current and/or planned research relevant to
  underserved populations or inequalities, or issues relevant to DEI, such as
  race, gender, sexuality, health disparities, human rights, educational access,
  ability, etc.