Barbara Hobom Prize 2013
BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies is strongly promoting and empowering women working in life sciences and bioengineering to grow, to develop and to succeed in their fields. BIOSS particularly encourages and provides assistance to young women starting their future scientific career. For the fourth time BIOSS is awarding the Barbara Hobom Prize for excellent female scientists working in the field of synthetic biology, signalling and bioengineering.
Candidates should be PhD students and conduct innovative and outstanding research in the areas mentioned. The laureate will be awarded € 10.000 for her further research. The money can be spent according to the guidelines of the DFG for lab consumables as well as for taking part in a research collaboration project with an international institution. Applicants should send (electronically as one single pdf, Email: kari.reulecke@bioss.uni-freiburg.de):
- application form
- CV
- a 1-2 page outline of the research project including a reference letter by their supervisor.
The applications will be reviewed by a committee established by the executive board of BIOSS.
Deadline for submitting an application is December 15th 2013.
Contact:
BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies
Signalhaus Freiburg
Kari Reulecke
Schänzlestr. 18
79104 Freiburg
Email: kari.reulecke@bioss.uni-freiburg.de
Barbara Hobom was a group leader at the University Freiburg and later a successful science journalist. In an article published in 1979 she was one of the first to coin the term “synthetic biology”.