DDA Young Investigator Award 2020

DDA calls for nominations for the Young Investigator Award 2020 to recognize, excellence, innovation, passion and commitment in Danish diabetes research.

The Young Investigator Award is presented to a young researcher, below the age of 40, who is engaged in diabetes research in Denmark, and who has shown promising research and made an important contribution to the understanding and treatment of diabetes.

Requirements for nomination

• The candidate must be nominated by a member of the DDA (members of the DDA can only nominate one person each (for each award), and members of the award committee cannot nominate a candidate)
• The candidate must be a member of the DDA (members of the award committee cannot be nominated)
• The candidate must be engaged in diabetes research in Denmark and be employed at a Danish research institution or in a life sciences company in Denmark
• The candidate must be below the age of 40
• The candidate must hold a PhD degree and she/he must have obtained her/his PhD diploma within the past five  years (at the time of nomination)

Please note:

• The winner must be able to attend the award ceremony at the Networking Meeting for DDA-Funded Researchers (7 December 2020).
• A candidate can only be nominated once and only for either the DDA Young Investigator Award or the DDA-Funded Scientist Award. If the DDA receives more than one nomination of the same candidate, only the nomination submitted first (according to date and time of submission) will be taken into consideration.
• Previous winners of the DDA awards cannot be nominated.
  
  

Nomination

Nomination deadline is 2 November 2020.

Nominations must be written in English and submitted via our online nomination form, which is situated on this page. Please note that you must be logged into the DDA website in order to submit a nomination.

The nomination should include the following documents (in one single PDF file only):

1. Letter of nomination from the nominator. Nominators are required to use the nomination form template (please download the template, fill it out and upload it together with the CV and publication list of the candidate in one single PDF file).

2. CV of the candidate (max. 2 A4 pages), including publication list of the candidate (no page limit for the publication list). The CV must include details about the following:

• Personal data: Name, address, etc.
• Education (for academic degrees, list the date and year of obtaining the degree).
• Current and most recent positions held.
• Any periods of leave (e.g. maternity/parental leave, family care leave, military service, humanitarian aid work, etc.). For periods of leave, indicate the cause and state precisely the starting date and end date of the leave period. Due consideration will be given to any periods of leave of absence, i.e. for candidates who have been on maternity or parental leave after obtaining their PhD, the DDA allows for an extended period of time since the PhD degree was obtained. The length of extended period will be calculated by multiplying the actual number of leave weeks by 2. Thus, the exact period of maternity/parental leave, with start date and end date, must be stated in the applicant’s CV.
• Other scientific qualifications and scientific focus areas.
• Experience with supervision/mentoring, teaching or planning of courses/conferences or the like.
• International relations, interdisciplinary or cross-sectoral collaborations.
• Academic awards and honours.
• Invited oral presentations at international conferences.
• Public dissemination of the candidate’s research and results thereof, i.e. on social media, in the press or in the public in general.
• External funding obtained.
• List of publications (only already published or accepted publications should be included) including H-index.
  
  

Evaluation and nomination

The applications will be assessed by an award committee consisting of two members of the DDA Committee for Talent Development and four members of the DDA Committee for Education (all appointed by the DDA Board of Directors). The award committee will forward the recommendations to the DDA Board of Directors, which will make the final decision. See evaluation criteria.

Please note that the Young Investigator Award will only be given out if the DDA award committee is able to recommend at least three candidates (meeting the requirements of the call for nominations) in order to ensure diversity of research area, gender and geography.

The awardee for the Young Investigator Award 2020 will be notified of the decision by 26 November 2020 and will be invited to take part in the award ceremony on 7 December 2020.

The winner will be awarded DKK 25,000.

For questions regarding the nomination procedure, please contact: ouh.dda@rsyd.dk