General Instructions

Instructions for Participants Competing for C. Gordon Van Arman Awards

The goal of the Van Arman Awards is to encourage young scientists (candidates for advanced degrees: M.S., Ph.D., M.D., D.O., D.D.S., D.V.M., and first year post doctoral fellows) to perform exploratory and applied research in inflammation.

Cash Awards

First Prize: $2,000, Second Prize: $1,000, Third Prize: $750, and Two honorable mentions: $500.

Expenses Paid for the Five Finalists

• Registration
• Room and board at meeting
• Travel: Economy air fares (supersavers) and other ground and rail transportation (final approval for travel plans is required, no later than three weeks before the Conference — please contact Lisa Olson, Chairperson of Scholarship Committee).

Procedure

1. Use abstract form designated for Van Arman Awards. Abstracts not selected for participation in the Van Arman Award competition will be included with the general abstracts to be considered for a Mini-symposium or Poster presentation unless otherwise indicated.

2. Submit mini-paper using, Inflammation Research 53: Suppl 3, 2004 (Download PDF file), as the official format. The mini-papers must be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word document or as a PDF file to Lisa Olson (lisa.olson@abbott.com) by May, 1 2010. PDF files are preferred if the paper contains special symbols such as Greek letters. The five finalists will be notified by July 2, 2010.

3. Submit a current Curriculum Vitae with the mini-paper.

4. Prior to the Conference, the Scholarship Committee will select five finalists, based on contestants’ mini-papers that will be evaluated in the following categories: a) originality of research; b) interpretation of data; c) presentation of data and statistical analysis; d) format and clarity of writing; and e) methods and techniques.

5. During the Conference, the Committee will evaluate the candidates’ knowledge of the field, and relevance and implication of their research. The poster presentation (open to Scholarship Committee only) will be a 10-15 min. question/answer session, and the oral presentation (open to all meeting attendees) will be a 10 min. slide/5 min. discussion (i.e., FASEB format). The Scholarship Committee will base its final selection using weighted scores from its previous evaluation of the mini-paper (25%), and from the poster (50%) and oral presentation (25%) at the meeting.

For further information contact:

Lisa M. Olson, PhD
lisa.olson@abbott.com
Tel: (508) 688-3888

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Van Arman Abstracts
and Mini-papers due by
Saturday, May 1, 2010.

Finalists will be notified by Friday, July 2, 2010
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