Alumni Association News 2009
Support the John Kendrew Award
Thank you!
You have helped us secure the John Kendrew Award for 2011, 2012 and 2013 (€ 6,000).
We are confident that with your help we can raise enough to run the award indefinitely.
The 2014 measuring beaker should show € 404: 27th October 2010.
The image will be updated in due course.
Our aim
About the award
Impact of the award
Payment methods
List of donors
Our aim
With the John Kendrew Young Scientist Award, our aim is to build on the excellent achievements of the past three award winners in offering a prize that is highly regarded among the European scientific community. We would like to continue this award and make it more influential in order to help young scientists gain early recognition and opportunities in pursuing ambitious and challenging career paths.
The award is worth €2,000. As a first step, the Alumni Association would like to secure the 2011 award, with the ultimate aim of raising a total of €65,000 in order to be able to offer it indefinitely.
There is no such thing as too small a gift and any amount is highly appreciated and acknowledged on our Donors page.
About the award
This award aims to foster and support young scientists in innovative fields of research, and to increase interaction between different disciplines within the scientific community. Launched in 2007, it recognises and rewards excellence in research and science communication to former EMBL pre- and postdocs and is granted entirely on merit, irrespective of field or affiliation to any discipline.
The response to this award has been overwhelming, both for the high number of outstanding applications – leading to joint winners in the first year – and for its enthusiastic reception by EMBL staff and alumni. The exceptional quality of the applications and the success of the award to-date have motivated us to aim to offer it indefinitely.
We are very grateful to the EMBL Pensioners’ Association for their generous funding of this award for the first three years. Many thanks also to the Alumni Association board and EMBL leadership for supporting this award with private donations.
We are confident that with your help, this first ever Alumni Association fundraising campaign will be successful, and we thank you for your support.
Giulio Superti-Furga
Chair of EMBL Alumni Association
Director, CeMM, Austria
Impact of the award
Antonio Giraldez: "The Kendrew Award has all the ingredients to grow into a recognised award worldwide that will inspire young scientists in Europe to excel. Its early recognition of our achievements plays a fundamental role in feeding the motivation of young investigators to move forward to great discoveries."
Giovanni Frazzetto: "The John Kendrew Award shows that unusual and rare research interests and approaches at the intersection between science and society are appreciated and valued. Since winning the award, I’m regularly invited to give lectures at courses and conferences, asked to present my research and to teach innovative, transdisciplinary courses. Also, the number of papers and grant proposals that I am requested to review has increased."
Julius Brennecke: "Fostering interactions between the scientific community and alumni is extremely valuable. While this is very established in the US, similar attempts in Europe are rare. The interaction I had at EMBL on the day of the award ceremony was fantastic and I will clearly benefit from reestablishing old bonds with scientists there. I very much hope that this prize will become a tradition at EMBL."
Payment methods
Donations made from Germany and some of our member states are tax-deductable. Click here to find out more.
1. Online payment via EMBL's Course and Conference Office using Worldpay. The Alumni Association will be charged a 3% fee for donations made using this method.
2. Via e-mail/fax/post. Please complete and return this form. The Alumni Association will be charged €10,00 for non-Euro currency cheques.
3. Bank transfer to:
Deutsche Bank Heidelberg
Account name: EMBL Alumni Association e.V.
Account no: 016961500;
BLZ (Bankleitzahl): 672 700 03
IBAN: DE58 6727 0003 0016 9615 00
BIC (Swift-code): DEUTDESM672
Street address: Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg
The Alumni Association will be charged €0,51 for non-Euro currency bank transfers. There is no charge for Euro currency bank transfers.
List of donors
Click here to see list of donors.
Funds raised by the EMBL Alumni Association are used for EMBL Alumni Association initiatives and activities, with the aim of supporting the alumni community. They are not used by EMBL, which also supports the Alumni Association financially.
