The Penn Center for Health, Devices and Technology (Penn Health-Tech) is soliciting nominations for the Nemirovsky Engineering and Medicine Opportunity (NEMO) Prize, a highly selective prize designed to bridge the critical gap between an idea and clinical breakthrough. A single prize of $80,000 will be given each year to the winning investigator(s).
 
Originated with a generous gift from Ofer Nemirovsky, EE’79, W’79, PAR’21, the NEMO Prize is focused on supporting early-stage ideas at the intersection of engineering and medicine that do not yet qualify for support by federal agencies and are not yet mature enough for private investment. Recognizing that major breakthroughs often occur from new collaborations, this award program can either support investigator(s) with no prior collaborative work, or ongoing collaborative teams examining new ideas at the interface between engineering and medicine. The awardee(s) will receive $80,000 to support the breakthrough. All faculty from Penn Engineering and Penn Medicine are eligible to submit award nominations.
 

For more information, please visit: https://healthtech.upenn.edu/nemo-prize or email nemo@seas.upenn.edu.

Nominations are due on Friday, June 10, 2022, by 5:00 pm EST.

Nomination Materials

Nominations require two components:  

• A one-page summary of the concept that will be supported by the award, including the scientific/clinical significance, general approach, and its potential impact on health/medicine. 
• A Biosketch for each nominee. NSF-style or NIH-style are permitted.

How to Submit Nominations

• Nomination materials should be submitted as a single PDF, entitled: NEMO_nomination_lastnameX. 
• Nomination materials must be submitted to NEMO@seas.upenn.edu, where the subject line should include “NEMO nomination lastnameX”.
• The lastnameX includes the complete list of faculty for a nomination in order to facilitate the processing of the nomination.