This new award is open to postdoctoral researchers and PhD students. The award consists of the opportunity to chair and run the BMS Early Career Investigator Symposium (ECIS) at a World Congress for Microcirculation or a European Conference on Microcirculation.
The Society has agreed to sponsor symposia at the World and European Conferences on Microcirculation starting in 2007, to be hosted by an early career investigator. Application for the 2009 award will take place at the same time as abstract submission for the next BMS meeting in Birmingham (deadline in February 2009 - date to be announced) and will provide the successful applicant with the opportunity to host a symposium of his/her choosing (approved by the committee) at the following WCM or ECM.
Applicants should fill in an application form, and submit it with their Abstract to the Secretary (Dr Lopa Leach). The application should include brief biographical details, publication record, and abstract presentations to the Society and at other meetings. The application will be judged on the quality of the science, the biographical record of the applicant and the pertinence to microcirculatory research within the UK.
The successful awardee will select speakers for the symposium in the first instance from abstracts and presentations at the Spring Meeting of the Society. It is expected that the awardee will be one of the speakers. In the event that sufficient quality abstracts within the appropriate area of research are not available, the awardeee may, in consultation with the President and Editor of Proceedings, invite early career investigator speakers from outside the abstract submission, but from within the Society membership.
The Society will pay the costs of the symposium (within reason), which will be chaired by the awardee and co-chaired by one of the committee (the President if possible).
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