NIH foundation accepting nominations for Lurie Prize

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) is accepting nominations for the second annual Lurie Prize, an award for outstanding achievement by a promising young scientist in biomedical research.

The nomination deadline is October 1.

The $100,000 prize, funded by a gift from FNIH board member Ann Lurie, can be used as the recipient chooses. A jury of six biomedical researchers will select a scientist to receive the prize in spring 2014.

Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD, a professor of immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT, and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, MD, won the 2013 Lurie Prize.

Any member of an accredited educational or scientific institution may nominate candidates, who must be 52 years of age or younger as of January 1, 2014.

For more information, visit the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health website.