Research awards

Award Type: Personal Award
Prize Money: 50.000 Euro
Granting Body: Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation
Other Benefits or Honours: The award involves a one-hour lecture at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Virology, 25 March - 28 March 2024 in Vienna.
Research Field: Virology
Eligibility: Candidates should have obtained their PhD, MD or equivalent at least 15 years ago (at the nomination deadline). Candidates must be nominated by fellow scientists (no self-application). The prize is international. Nominations may be put forward by all members of the GfV, the Board of Directors, and the Scientific Advisory Council of the CHS.
Applications must be in English and submitted to the address given below.

Requirements: The following information is required to submit a nomination as email-attachment in one PDF (max. size 10 MB):
- Name and contact details of the scientist making the nomination
- Name and contact details of the candidate
- A brief one-page biography of the candidate including major awards received by the candidate
- A list of 10 most significant publications of the candidate
- Short research summary of the candidate describing scientific achievements of relevance to the award (two pages max)
- Two supporting reference letters by colleagues familiar with the candidate's work
- A complete CV of the candidate, including a full publication list (please do not submit reprints)

Application period: September 01 - November 01, 2023
Submit your application electronically to the following address:
geschaeftsstelle@g-f-v.org

Contact Details
Name: GfV - Society of Virology e.V.
Homepage: https://www.g-f-v.org/
Email: geschaeftsstelle@g-f-v.org

The target group is therefore significantly different from that of the LoefflerFrosch prize. The award will be presented at the spring conference of the GfV. The award winner is to give the LoefflerFrosch Lecture at the spring conference. All members of the GfV can submit proposals for the award of the medal. Nominations, including a short justification, should be submitted electronically to the GfV office at the following e-mail address by November 1 of the current year: geschaeftsstelle@g-f-v.org

The prize money is € 5,000.
The prize is intended to be awarded to scientists who are members of Society of Virology , have not yet reached the age of 40 (childcare periods are taken into account in accordance with DFG regulations) and do not yet hold a lifetime professorship.
The evaluation should be based on one or more publications that have been published or accepted for publication within the last few years. An outstanding virological achievement should be honored.
University professors and department heads who are members of Society of Virology are eligible to nominate candidates. The work to be honored is selected at the fall meeting of the Executive Board and Advisory Board.

Applications, consisting of a CV, list of publications and a letter of motivation (max. 2 pages), should be submitted to the GfV office by November 1st of the current year at the following e-mail address: geschaeftsstelle@g-f-v.org

The prize is intended to recognize scientists who have previously worked particularly successfully as postdoctoral researchers. Each of the three specialist societies prepares a nomination with the names of three young scientists. The final decision is made by the Robert Koch Foundation. The award winners are thus, in their view, the best and most original researchers in their age group who have been able to publish their work in the leading interdisciplinary journals.

All members of the GfV are entitled to nominate candidates. The candidate proposal (by e-mail) with a short letter of recommendation, curriculum vitae and selected publications should be submitted electronically to the GfV office by March 31 of the current year: geschaeftsstelle@g-f-v.org

1st prize money

The prize money is € 2,500.

2. research work

The basis of the evaluation should be one or more publications that have been published or accepted for publication in the last two years. The aim is to award a prize for an outstanding scientific achievement that demonstrates significant new findings in the field of clinical virology and is related to public health issues.

3. participant

The prize can be awarded to individual scientists or a group of researchers.

4. application

Members of the DVV as well as university lecturers and heads of department who are members of the GfV are entitled to nominate candidates. The executive boards of DVV and GfV have formed a selection committee with two representatives each from DVV and GfV. The work to be awarded is selected by the selection committee in consultation with the presidents of the two specialist societies. The prize will be awarded at the annual conference of the German Association for the Control of Viral Diseases.

Criteria:
- Completion of the doctorate in the previous/current year
- Peer-review publication of the results of the doctorate
Application deadline: February 10 of the current year
Applications must be submitted by the applicant themselves with a CV, list of publications and a letter of recommendation in electronic form to the GfV office: geschaeftsstelle@g-f-v.org

The prize is to be awarded to a medical and scientific doctoral candidate who has completed an outstanding piece of work as part of a scientific or medical doctorate on a virological topic at a research institution in the German-speaking world, which has already been published or accepted for publication. Applications can be submitted by November 1st of the current year at the latest . At the time of application, the doctoral procedure should not yet have been formally completed. The prize was established by the Bernhard and Ingrid Fleckenstein Foundation and is intended to enable the prizewinners to look at interesting research institutions abroad for a postdoctoral position.

The following documents in German or English are requested for the application:

(1) Cover letter with a brief outline of the scientific concept of the doctoral project.

(2) Curriculum vitae of the applicant in tabular form

(3) List of publications of the candidate

(4) Copy of one or more selected key publication(s)

(5) Statement by a university teacher, preferably the supervisor of the doctoral thesis

Please send the documents as a single PDF file to the office of Society of Virology: geschaeftsstelle@g-f-v.org