Since 2005, Biophysical Society of Japan (BSJ) has granted “Early Career Award in Biophysics” to young BSJ members for their excellent presentations that show great potential to contribute to the progress of biophysics. In this annual meeting, the society will continue the selection of the awardees based on the invited talks at the Early Career Award in Biophysics Candidate Presentation Symposium. In addition, the society will grant a new award, the “Early Career Presentation Award” to the rest of the invited speakers of the symposium. The society also modified the requirements for the award application to enable multiple winnings of the awards and to encourage the application of members who experienced life events such as childbirth. We invite graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and young investigators to apply for the awards.

Members of BSJ (including those in the process of membership application) who will give presentations at the annual BSJ meeting and who meet the following requirements.

(1) Each applicant must be 35 years old or younger, or must be within 8 years after obtaining the doctoral degree as of the date 2016/4/1. If an applicant has experienced life events such as childbirth or nursing care, he/she must be 37 years old or younger, or must be within 10 years after obtaining the degree as of the date 2016/4/1.
(2) Each applicant must be the first and presenting author of the presentation.
(3) An applicant, who won the Early Career Award in Biophysics or the Early Career Presentation Award in the past annual meetings, is still eligible to apply for the awards, if he/she have already published a research or review article on the topics related to the content of the awarded presentation on the journal, “Biophysics and Physicobiology” and if he/she is going to present new research results distinct from the past presentation.

The number of the awardees of the Early Career Award in Biophysics is five or less. The awardees of the Early Career Award in Biophysics and the Early Career Presentation Award are supposed to submit a research or review article on the topics related to the awards to “Biophysics and Physicobiology” within two years. Student members can apply for both of Early Career Award in Biophysics and Student Presentation Award.

First, applicants should download the application format below, fill out all the required information in the application form and convert it to the PDF format. Second, applicants should register for the 2016 annual BSJ meeting, submit an abstract of the presentation, and upload the application form in the PDF format via the abstract submission page. Only one application per one member is allowed. Student members who wish to apply for both of Early Career Award in Biophysics and Student Presentation Award should submit an application form for the latter award as well. If applicants who applied for the both awards are selected as the invited speakers of the Early Career Award in Biophysics Candidate Presentation Symposium, he/she will be automatically eliminated from the list of applicants for the Student Presentation Award.

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The first screening will be carried out on the basis of the submitted application forms. Approximately ten candidates will be selected at this stage, and will be invited as speakers of the Early Career Award in Biophysics Candidate Presentation Symposium to be held on the first day of the annual meeting. The result of the first screening will be released on the meeting website at the beginning of September. In the second screening, the ten invited speakers will give oral presentations at this symposium. Up to five awardees will be selected based on their presentations. The first and second screenings will be carried out by the selection committee for Early Career Award in Biophysics.

The ceremony for the Early Career Award in Biophysics will be held at the banquet on the second day of the annual meeting. All the ten speakers of the Early Career Award in Biophysics Candidate Presentation Symposium will be invited to the banquet. The award certificates and plaques will be presented to the winners. The winners’ names and subjects of their presentations will be published later on the website of BSJ.

June 20 (Mon) - July 20 (Wed), 2016. closed
If the registration deadline for the annual meeting is extended, the application period of the award will be similarly extended.