National Bioscience Awards for Career Development 2011

National Bioscience Awards for Career Development 2011

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) invites nominations of scientists who are engaged in basic and applied research in Biosciences & Biotechnology including Biological, Agricultural, Medical, and Environmental Sciences and have made outstanding contributions in research with potential for application/ product and technology development, for ‘National Bioscience Awards for Career Development for the year 2011’.
The award is to recognize outstanding contributions of young scientists below 45 years of age in basic and applied research and to provide grant for research for their career development.

Nature of the Award:

Upto 10 awards per year will be given. Each award carries a cash prize of `. 1,00,000/- and a trophy alongwith a citation and a project research grant of `.9,00,000/- @ `.3,00,000/- per year for a period of three years for career development.

The details of the Award, eligibility criteria, and proforma for nomination are available at. http://www.dbtindia.gov.in/index.asp

To Apply :
The nominations (10 copies) neatly typed in double space on plain paper in the prescribed proforma complete with enclosures should reach on or before 30th October, 2011 to Mr. K.M. Kutty, Deputy Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Room No. 807, 8th Floor, Block-II, CGO Complex, Lodi Road, New Delhi – 110 003 and a soft copy in MS-Word .doc file to be e-mailed to km.kutty@nic.in.

For more information visit : http://dbtindia.nic.in/