Creative prize for early-career researchers

The $25,000 Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize for early-career biomedical researchers is open for applications.

The prize is awarded to early-career scientists in biomedical research, including cross-disciplinary research, who have made significant contributions to their chosen field in unique and creative ways. The $25,000 will be equally split between a personal award and as support for a project or scientific travel.

Two other highly commended finalists will receive $5000 to pursue their research.

Previous winners of the prize include:

• Dr Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat, from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, for her research on how and why breast stem cells contribute to the progression of breast cancer, as well as lung stem cells and their role in cancer.
• Dr Jian Yang, from the Diamantina Institute at the University of Queensland, for research in human genetics and what makes genes typically implicated in inherited diseases like schizophrenia, obesity and diabetes account for only a small amount of their heritability.

The prize is open to researchers from any country whose research was substantially carried out in Australia at any institute, university or educational institution and who received their PhD on or after 1 January 2006 (with special criteria for medical graduates).

Applications close at 5 pm on Friday 4 October 2013.

For further details on how to apply, go to the Centenary Institute’s website.