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Regeneron Announces Winners of the 2014 Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation
"The Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation identifies and recognizes young scientists who show great promise to become the next generation of leading innovators in our industry," said
Two winners of the Regeneron Prize will each receive a
Daniel Schramek ,The Rockefeller University , Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation by a Postdoctoral FellowKelly Clancy , Biophysics,University of California, Berkeley , Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation by a Graduate Student
Two graduate student researchers will be awarded Honorable Mentions and a cash prize of
Daniel Marks , Cancer Biology,Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School Xuebing Wu , Computational and Systems Biology,Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Six additional finalists will each be awarded
Requests for applicants were distributed to academic institutions in January 2014. Each institution was asked to nominate two graduate students and two postdoctoral fellows. Each nomination includes a proposal explaining the nominee's "dream" project in biomedical research, which offers insight into the nominee's creativity and ability to think independently as a scientist. Each nomination also includes a curriculum vitae, list of publications and a review of the nominee's productivity in their current laboratory.
"We look for young scientists who demonstrate the capacity for original thinking and for research proposals that have the potential to drive biomedicine forward," said
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