Subject: 2024 -12th annual Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation for Postdocs - Internal BPP deadline_ January 17, 2024 noon

 

To: Research Deans and Postdoctoral Trainees and Fellows

 

Funder: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.  

 

Program name: 12th annual Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation in 2024 

 

Program summary: The Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation recognizes and honors excellence in biomedical science conducted by postdoctoral fellows. Two applicants will be selected to receive the Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation each year.   

 

Limitation: BPP will prescreen applications from the School of Medicine, Dental Medicine, Nursing, and Veterinary Medicine and submit two (2) applications to OVPR.

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research will conduct the internal competition to identify the 

two postdoc finalists for the University. 

 

Eligibility: 

• Must be a Postdoctoral trainee at the University of Pennsylvania  
• Must be conducting biomedical research.  
• Must certify that the project proposal submitted is their original idea and does not appear in any publication or grant application where they are not the principal investigator.  (if selected as a Penn nominee) 
• Joint/team proposals are not eligible to be submitted for the Regeneron Prize.  

 

Award information: 

• An unrestricted award of $50,000 to be used in any way the winner chooses.  
• Finalists are each awarded $5,000.  
• The home institution of the prize winners will each receive a $5,000 donation to support the institution’s seminar series.  
• The research that is proposed is not necessarily meant to be conducted, nor is the prize meant as a funding mechanism for research.  The prize is a cash prize to the trainee, and the trainee may use the money in any way he or she wishes. 
• Finalists may be invited to visit Regeneron for the onsite competition, travel expenses paid.   

 

Selection: 

One of Regeneron's primary criteria for selecting Regeneron Prize awardees is research productivity. As such, the CVs and publications of the applicants will be very important components of the selection process. However, Regeneron recognizes that two trainees with similar records of productivity may not be equivalent in scientific caliber. A trainee's mentor plays a big role in the development of a high-profile publication record.  The “dream” project component of the Regeneron Prize application is designed to be a differentiating exercise that allows Regeneron's Selection Committee to distinguish between applicants who have excellent research records because of their mentors and those who have excellent research records because of their own scientific merits.  

 

Biomedical Postdoctoral Programs Review and Selection Process

 

Deadline: Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 noon

 

BPP will submit two (2) candidate applications to OVPR. Applications must include the following: 

 

Cover Page which includes:  

• Project title 
• Postdoctoral Trainees name, department, address, phone, email 

• Name of faculty mentor, title, department, address, phone, email  

A “Dream Project” proposal (maximum 2 pages not including references, no smaller than 10-point font. (Figures MUST fit within the 2-page limit).   The research proposed must be within the field of biomedicine, broadly defined.   Preliminary data is not necessary.   The proposal should clearly define a specific experiment or series of experiments, and include a rationale, basic methodology/design (citing literature is fine), and discussion of how the experiment's results would advance the field.   IMPORTANT: Read carefully the attached document which describes the Dream Project format.   A CV (maximum 4 pages), which includes a full academic and publication history including clearly identified corresponding authors and undergraduate coauthors of all publications.  Two (2) publications as evidence of scholarly achievement. Submit as PDF.  

 

All materials must be submitted in a single pdf document (file name:  REGENERON_applicant LAST name_ applicant FIRSTname) in the above order to  postdoc@pennmedicine.upenn.edu by January 17th, 2024.

 

Subject line of the email should be, REGENERON_applicant LAST name_ applicant FIRST name.

If you have any questions, please contact ana-rita.mayol@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.