Innovators in Science AwardCall for Nominations Webinar

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

12 PM – 1 PM EDT

Adria Martig, PhD

Director, Innovators in Science Award

The New York Academy of Sciences

Innovators in Science AwardCall for Nominations Webinar

Award Program Overview

Nomination Guidelines• Nominating Entities• Nominee Eligibility• Nomination Materials and Procedures

Judging and Winner Selection• Evaluation Criteria

2019 Innovators in Science Award• Important Dates

Q&A

Important Links & Contact Information

Webinar Agenda

Webinar Format

*Presentation is available for download at www.nyas.org/InnovatorsWebinarPdf.

Participants muted for the duration of the webinar.

Questions accepted through online interface.

Questions compiled and answered after the presentation.

Email unanswered questions to TakedaInnovators@nyas.org.

Award Program Overview

• Administered by the New York Academy of Sciences and sponsored by Takeda Pharmaceuticals, the Innovators in Science Award was established in 2016.

• This global award recognizes a promising Early-Career Scientist and an outstanding Senior Scientist for their contributions to science in the therapeutic areas of Neuroscience, Gastroenterology, Regenerative Medicine, and Oncology.

Award Program Overview

Winner Recognition

• Chosen by an international jury of thought leaders, 2 winners receive $200,000 US each award cycle.

• Celebratory events hosted in New York City or Tokyo.

• Invitation to submit to the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

• Research highlights featured in Academy news and publications including The New York Academy of Sciences Magazine and Academy eBriefings.

Dr. Nakanishi and Dr. Gradinaru2017 Award Winners in Neuroscience

Award Program Overview

• The therapeutic area of

focus for the Award cycle is

announced in January of

each year.

• The 2019 Innovators in

Science Award recognizes

excellence in the field of

Regenerative Medicine.

Global Call for NominationsApril 16-June 25, 2018

Nomination GuidelinesNominating EntitiesResearch Institutions

• Nominations invited from academic institutions ranked 1-400 from the 2017/18 QS World University Rankings®.

• Institutions submit up to two (2) nominations, one (1) Early-Career Scientist and one (1) Senior Scientist.

• Nominations welcome from government, or non-profit institutions or equivalent.

• If your institution is not listed at TakedaInnovators.com, submit a statement of interest at TakedaInnovators@nyas.org for consideration.

*Self-nominations are NOT permitted

Azim Surani, PhD, FMedSci, FRS Robert Tjian, PhD

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD

Bengt Samuelsson, PhD Hans Schöler, PhD Makoto Suematsu, MD, PhD

Joseph Goldstein, MD

Nobutaka Hirokawa, MD, PhD Shigekazu Nagata, PhD

Don Cleveland, MD, PhD

Hans Clevers, MD, PhD Elaine Fuchs, PhD

Nomination GuidelinesNominating Entities

Scientific Advisory Council

Nomination GuidelinesNominee EligibilityEligibility Criteria: Early-Career Scientist

*Please visit TakedaInnovators.com for detailed information about eligibility exceptions.

Doctorate-level degree (PhD, DPhil, MD, DDS, DVM, etc.)

Engaged in research for 10 years or less since gaining

doctorate degree or equivalent*

Hold a junior level post-doctoral or faculty position

Made impactful research contributions and show

exceptional promise for future achievement in the field

Nomination GuidelinesNominee EligibilityEligibility Criteria: Senior Scientist

Doctorate-level degree (PhD, DPhil, MD, DDS, DVM, etc.)

Engaged in research for 11 years or more since gaining their

doctorate degree or equivalent

Hold a senior level faculty position

Made multiple, extensive, and impactful research

contributions to advance the field

Nomination Guidelines

Nomination Materials

• Nominator’s Rationale for Nomination (200 words)• Nominee’s Curriculum Vitae (4 pages)• Nominee’s Research Summary (1,000 words)• Nominee’s Future Research Plan (500 words; Early-Career

Scientist only)• Full-text publications and/or patents (up to 4)• Name and email addresses for two (2) Letter of Support writers

Nomination Materials must be submitted using the online nomination system at TakedaInnovators.com.

Nomination Guidelines

Regenerative Medicine

Sub-disciplines

• Adipose, Musculoskeletal, and Connective Tissue

• Cancers

• Cardiac Tissue

• Chromatin and Epigenetics

• Clinical Trials and Regenerative Medicine

Interventions

• Endothelial Cells and Hemangioblasts

• Epithelial Tissues

• Eye and Retina

• Germline, Early Embryo and Totipotency

• Hematopoiesis and Immunology

• Neural Development and Regeneration

• Neural Disease and Degeneration

• Organoids

• Pancreas, Liver, Kidney, Gut

• Pluripotency

• Pluripotent Stem Cell Differentiation

• Pluripotent Stem Cell: Disease Modeling

• Reprogramming

• Stem Cell Niches

• Technologies for Stem Cell Research

• Tissue Engineering

• Other

Nomination GuidelinesResearch Institution Nomination Procedure

Invited and approved institutions email name of designated nominator to TakedaInnovators@nyas.org

Nomination portal account login provided to designated nominator by Award program staff

Designated nominator submits nominee information and uploads nomination materials: Nominations due June 25, 2018

Letter of Support writers receive instructions automatically via nomination portal

Nomination packages are complete upon receipt of 2 Letters of Support: Letters of Support due July 23, 2018

Individuals in receipt of current or prior research support from Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, or its affiliates, are not eligible for nomination.

Judging and Winner Selection

Quality The extent to which the work is reliable, valid, credible, and scientifically rigorous.

Impact The extent to which the work represents a significant contribution in basic, translational or clinical research that has impacted, or has strong potential to impact, human health through the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of disease.

Novelty The extent to which the work challenges existing paradigms, employs innovative new methodologies or concepts, and/or pursues an original question.

Promise Senior Scientist - The extent to which the nominee has made impactful research contributions, and future prospects for further significant contributions in the Award field.

Early-Career Scientist - The extent to which the nominee has made innovative research contributions and shows exceptional promise for significant future achievement in the Award field.

Nominee Evaluation Criteria

2019 Innovators in Science Award

Important Dates

June 25, 2018 11:59 PM EDT• Nominations

Close

July 23, 2018 11:59 PM EDT• Letters of

Support Due

November 2018• Winners

Selected by International Jury

January 2019• Winners

Announced

April 25-26, 2019 Tokyo, Japan• Award

Ceremony and Symposium

Please type your questions into the Q&A box

Innovators in Science AwardCall for Nominations Webinar

Q&A Session

• Our senior candidate has an 81 page CV. Can we submit his 4-page NIH biosketch instead?

The four-page NIH biosketch is acceptable.

• Are funds provided to attend the ceremonies?

Award Winner travel to the Award Ceremony and Symposium is supported through the Innovators in Science Award Program.

• Are all of the "thought leaders" who will be judging the nominations scientists themselves? Do nominations need to be written to be understood by non-scientists?

All of the thought leaders are scientists. The Jury members are selected from research institutions from around the world.

Nomination materials should be written for a scientific audience.

Innovators in Science AwardCall for Nominations Webinar

Q&A Session (cont.)

• How should we think about the sub-disciplines? Some research may overlap across many of those disciplines.

Choose the sub-discipline that most closely fits the nominee’s research program. This categorization provides the Academy with information about the distribution of nominee subfields in a given Award cycle. The chosen subfield will not impact final evaluation of the nominee.

• Is the award money sent to the institution to administer on behalf of the awardee?

The Awardee receives the prize money directly.

• Is there a page limit on the 4 full-text publications and/or patents?

There is not a page limit on the full-text publications and/or patents.

Innovators in Science AwardCall for Nominations Webinar

Innovators in Science Award

Important Links & Contact Information

• To submit a nomination or for complete details about the award program visit TakedaInnovators.com.

• Presentation is available for download at www.nyas.org/InnovatorsWebinarPdf.

• For additional questions contact TakedaInnovators@nyas.org.