Nominate a researcher for the DDA Awards 2020

Does one of your fellow junior researchers deserve acknowledgements for her/his diabetes research?

All members of the DDA can nominate candidates for the DDA Awards 2020 (of each 25,000 DKK):

• DDA-Funded Scientist Award: This award is presented to a junior DDA-funded researcher (current or previous) who has shown great potential to be a world‐class researcher within his/her field of expertise.

• Young Investigator Award: This award is presented to a junior 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.

The deadline for nominations is 2 November 2020.

You get can further information and submit your nominations here:

• DDA-Funded Scientist Award
• DDA Young Investigator Award

This year, the awards will be presented at the Networking Meeting for DDA-Funded Researchers on 7 December 2020 instead of the DDA Annual Day (as usual) as this event has been cancelled due to COVID-19.

General requirements for nomination

• 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. Please note that only current or previous DDA-funded researchers can be nominated for the DDA-Funded Scientist Award. Other candidates should be nominated for the DDA Young Investigator Award.
• The candidates must be members of the DDA (members of the DDA can only nominate one person each, and members of the award committee cannot nominate a candidate)
• The candidates must be nominated by a member of the DDA (members of the DDA can only nominate one person each for each award)
• The candidates 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 candidates must hold a PhD degree and the candidate must have obtained her/his PhD degree within five years (for the Young Investigator Award) or ten years (for the DDA-Funded Scientist Award) (at the time of nomination)

Further information about the specific requirements for each award, evaluation and nomination can be found at the links above.

Tine Hylle, Management Assistant
tine.hylle@rsyd.dk