Physician/Scientist/Pharmacist Awards and Award Sessions
The abstract awards as listed below are available to authors submitting abstracts under the
physician/scientist/pharmacist program (Technologist and Technologist Student Abstract
Awards are described on pp 10-11). Descriptions and eligibility requirements for each award are
listed below.
All award winners and/or candidate abstracts must be accepted and placed into an oral scientific
session by members of the Scientific Program Committee. Submitting authors must check the
appropriate box when submitting abstracts to be considered for the awards. All award winners
will be announced onsite during the SNM Annual Meeting events, and award-winning abstracts
will be recognized in SNM print publications and electronic media by icons next to the abstract
titles. The following are SNM abstract awards authors can indicate for consideration when
submitting abstract(s):
o Berson-Yalow Award
o Young Professionals Committee (YPC) Awards
o Young Investigator Awards and Symposia
Berson-Yalow Award
Commemorates Rosalyn S. Yalow, Ph.D., and the late Solomon A. Bernson, M.D., who together
developed the RIA technique in the 1950s. The Award was established by SNM in 1977, the
same year that Dr. Yalow received the prestigious Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine in
acknowledgement of the RIA breakthrough. The objective of the Berson-Yalow Award is to
honor investigators who submit the most original scientific abstracts and make the most
significant contributions to basic or clinical radioassay. In 1987 the Scientific Program
Committee expanded its criteria to include all research that made use of the indicator-dilution
method. Categories such as neurology, oncology and radiopharmaceutical chemistry, in addition
to radioassay, fall under the new criteria. The Scientific Program Committee acts as the
selection committee for the Berson-Yalow Award. To be considered for this award, check of the
“Berson-Yalow Award” box when submitting your abstract. Your abstract must be submitted as
Physician/Scientist/Pharmacist abstract type.
Young Professionals Committee (YPC) Awards
This is an SNM-sponsored competition, in association with the SNM Young Professionals
Committee (YPC) of the Academic Council for the best research-based presentation on basic
science or clinical topics, designated as the SNM Young Professionals Committee Award. The
main objectives of the awards are to foster quality research by young professionals and to
identify promising young professionals in their respective areas. To qualify, click the radio
button for “Young Professionals Committee Award” during the online submission of your
abstract. Submitting authors have the option to be considered for both Young Investigator
Awards and Young Professionals Committee Awards, but will be only selected as a winner for a
single award.
Eligibility Requirements:
o Applicants must be medical students, residents, fellows, graduate or undergraduate
students OR young physicians or scientists less than 3 years out of training. MDs, MDcandidates, PhDs, and PhD-candidates are eligible.
o All former first-prize winners are ineligible.
Submission Requirements:
o Submit the abstract to the most appropriate Physician/Pharmacist/Scientist Category.
o Abstracts must be submitted as “Consider for Either oral or poster”. If the abstract is
submitted as “poster only”, it will not be considered for this award.
o Check the “Young Professionals Award” box when submitting your abstract online.
o No separate submission is necessary.
o Authors can be considered for both Young Investigator Awards and Young Professional
Awards. To be considered for a Young Investigator Award, follow the specific
submission instructions provided for these awards.
Review Process and Abstract Presentation if “considered for YPC Awards”:
o Abstracts will be evaluated by members of the Scientific Program Committee.
o If accepted for presentation at the 2007 SNM Annual Meeting, the presentation format,
oral or poster, will be designated by the Scientific Program Committee
o If selected for an oral presentation, the abstract will be presented during the respective
scientific session, with abstracts covering similar topics. There will be no separate
Young Professionals oral session.
o These abstracts will be recognizable by a “YPC” icon in the abstract book.
Awards:
o Award-winning abstracts will be presented at the annual Young Professionals Committee
Luncheon, held during the Annual Meeting.
o Award winning YPC abstracts presented during oral abstract sessions will be announced
by the session moderator at the time of presentation.
o Monetary prizes are offered for the following YPC awards:
o For Best Clinical Presentation
1st Prize
2nd Prize
o For Best Basic Science Presentation
1st Prize
2nd Prize
Young Investigator Awards
o Cardiovascular Young Investigator Award Symposium
o Neurosciences Young Investigator Award Symposium
o Computer & Instrumentation Council Young Investigator Award Symposium
o Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Council Young Investigator Award Symposium
o (NEW) Correlative Imaging Council Walter Wolf Young Investigator Award
o (NEW) Pediatrics Council Young Investigator Award
Young Investigator Awards Symposia
Each year, the SNM, in association with SNM Councils, sponsors competitions for the best
scientific abstracts submitted to categories within the Cardiovascular, Neurosciences, Computer
and Instrumentation, and Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry Tracks. These prestigious, wellattended, 90-minute award sessions, designated as the Young Investigator Award Symposia, are
composed of 4 – 7 oral abstract presentations, 12 minutes in duration (10 minutes for
presentation plus 2 minutes for discussion). The objectives of these Young Investigator Awards
Symposia are to (1) identify promising young investigators working in cardiovascular sciences,
neurosciences, computer & instrumentation, or radiopharmaceutical sciences, and (2) to assist in
furthering their professional careers and strengthen to theory and practice of these subspecialties
in nuclear medicine.
How to Apply
All applicants must be currently enrolled or within five [5] years of a completed certified training
program. All former first prize winners are ineligible. To be considered, authors must check the
designated box located in the online abstract submitter (www.snm.org/abstracts) for the 54th
SNM Annual Meeting. Accepted abstracts selected for Young Investigator Award Symposia are
published in the May issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) Abstract Book
Supplement. Acceptance of an abstract considered for these awards are determined by the
Selection Committees for each SNM Council. Awards are processed by the SNM Central Office
and presented to recipients at the respective Council Business Meetings during the 2007 SNM
Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
Cardiovascular Young Investigator Symposium
SNM-sponsored symposium and competition, in association with the SNM Cardiovascular
Council, for the best scientific abstracts on basic or clinical cardiovascular nuclear medicine,
designated as the SNM Cardiovascular Young Investigator Award. The objectives of the award
are to identify promising young investigators working in cardiovascular nuclear medicine. All
applicants must be currently enrolled in or within five (5) years of a completed certified training
program (there is no age limit). To qualify, authors must check the “consider for Cardiovascular
Young Investigator award” box during online abstract submission for the SNM Annual Meeting.
o All applicants must submit abstract to one of the two categories in the Cardiovascular
Track, and indicate their desire to be considered for this award during online submission.
o No separate submission is necessary.
o All former first-prize winners are ineligible.
o All applicants must choose “Either Oral or Poster” as the Presentation Type.
o Monetary prizes are offered for the above award in the following amounts:
1st Prize: $500 + certificate
2nd Prize: $300 + certificate
3rd Prize: $200 + certificate
Neurosciences Young Investigator Award Symposium
SNM-sponsored symposium and competition, in association with the SNM Brain Imaging
Council, for the best scientific abstracts on Neurosciences nuclear medicine, designated as the
SNM Neurosciences Young Investigator Award. The objectives of the award are to identify
promising young investigators working in Neurosciences nuclear medicine. To qualify, authors
must check the designated box during their online abstract submissions for the SNM Annual
Meeting.
o Applicants must be medical students, residents, fellows or graduate students, or be within
2 years of completing a Ph.D. or certified nuclear medicine training program (there is no
age limit).
o No separate submission is necessary. Applicants should submit an abstract to one of the
three (3) categories within the Neurosciences Track and indicate their desire to be
considered for this award. The abstract must be original research, not previously
published or presented.
o All applicants are encouraged to submit supporting data, to allow a better evaluation of
their work.
o All former first-prize winners are ineligible.
o All applicants must choose “Either Oral or Poster” as the Presentation Type.
o Presenters for the Neurosciences Young Investigators Symposium platform session will
be selected on the basis of their submitted abstracts. The award winners will be selected
after the symposium from among the presenters.
o Monetary prizes are offered for the above award in the following amounts:
o 1st Prize: $500
o 2nd Prize: $300
o 3rd Prize: $200
Computer and Instrumentation Young Investigator Symposium
SNM-sponsored symposium and competition, in association with the SNM Computer and
Instrumentation Council, for the best scientific abstracts on Computer & Instrumentation
research in nuclear medicine, designated as the SNM Computer & Instrumentation Young
Investigator Award. The objectives of the award are to identify promising young investigators
working in instrumentation and data analysis pertaining to nuclear medicine. To qualify, authors
must check the designated box during their online abstract submissions for the SNM Annual
Meeting. Entry is open to medical students, residents, fellows, graduate students, post-doctoral
fellows and those with less than two years experience as a faculty member.
Abstracts must be submitted to one of the three (3) categories in the Instrumentation and
Data Analysis Track.
All applicants must be currently enrolled or within five (5) years of a completed certified
training program.
All former first prize winners are ineligible.
All applicants must choose “Either Oral or Poster” as the Presentation Type.
Monetary prizes are offered in the following amounts:
o 1st Prize: $500 + certificate
o 2nd Prize: $300 + certificate
o 3rd Prize: $200 + certificate
2007 RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES COUNCIL
YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD
THE SOCIETY OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE
About the Award:
The award winner will receive:
•
a monetary prize of US $ 400, $250 or $150, based on placement
•
an award certificate
How to Apply:
Applicants must be either a graduate student, a postdoctoral fellow with less than six years since
receiving her/his Ph.D., or a junior faculty 35 years of age or younger on June 3, 2006. Prior
year award recipients are not eligible for the award. Interested applicants should check the
appropriate box located in SNM’s online abstract submitter to request consideration for the
award. The abstract must be original research, never published nor previously presented. The
abstract should be prepared using the guidelines for preparation of abstracts located on the SNM
website www.snm.org/abstracts.
Submitters of the top seven scored abstracts in the Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry Track, which
are designated for consideration of the award, will be selected as finalists. After notification, the
finalists will be required to make an oral presentation at the SNM meeting for further
consideration. The seven finalists will present their research at a special Radiopharmaceutical
Sciences Council (RPSC) Young Investigator Award Symposium held during the SNM
meeting. Presenting applicants will be critiqued during the oral presentations by a committee
comprised of RPSC Officers/Board Members, and Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry Track subchairs. The RPSC Young Investigator Award recipients will be announced at the SNM meeting,
in an e-mail communication with RPSC membership.
Correlative Imaging Council Walter Wolf Young Investigators Award (NEW)
The SNM Correlative Imaging Council established the Walter Wolf Young Investigator Award
in 2006 in honor of Walter Wolf, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and
Chair of the Biomedical Imaging Science Initiative at the University of Southern California. Dr.
Wolf, who is also a Past President of the Correlative Imaging Council, has been a leader in the
field of pharmacokinetic imaging and drug development.
This award recognizes a young investigator for originality, scientific methodology, and overall
contribution to Molecular Imaging or Therapy through original research showing the importance
and value of correlative imaging in all fields of medicine. The award recipient (presenting
author) will receive a certificate + monetary prize of $500.00, to be presented at the 2007 SNM
Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
Please NOTE: This is a freestanding award, and thus is not part of an awards symposium. There
will be a single award winner for the best correlative imaging abstract, as evaluated by qualified
SNM committee members across categories. The award will be presented at the Correlative
Imaging Council Business Meeting during the Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, and will be
recognized during the scientific session in which the Presenting Author will be notified in March
2007.
To be considered for the award:
Investigators must submit to the Physician/Scientist/Pharmacist program. This award is
not track- or category-specific. Abstracts submitted to any track/category within the
Physician/Scientist/Pharmacist program are eligible for consideration.
Investigators must choose “Oral or Poster” as the designated presentation type. “Poster
Only” submissions will not be considered.
Investigators are encouraged to submit supporting data to allow better evaluation of their
work by SNM peer review teams. Supporting data may include 1 table, and/or 1 image,
and/or a set of references. Supporting data is neither publishable nor reproducible, and is
used solely for the purpose of conducting abstract reviews by a qualified team of experts
in the field.
Investigators must be a pharmacist, physician, scientist, technologist, or allied health
professional in-training, and less than 10 years in practice.
Investigators may be considered for multiple awards, but only one award will be given
per investigator. The lead investigator (Presenting Author) must be designated at the time
of abstract submission.
Pediatrics Council Young Investigator Award Symposium (NEW)
This newly-established, SNM-sponsored competition, in association with the SNM Pediatrics
Council, offers young investigators the opportunity to receive an award for the best scientific
abstract submitted to the Pediatric category.
The objective of the SNM Pediatrics Council Young Investigator Award is to identify promising
young investigators working in Pediatric nuclear medicine, Pediatric molecular imaging and
therapy of Pediatric disease. Only a single winner will be chosen. The prizes for the award
include: $150 + certificate + 1 year FREE membership to SNM Pediatrics Council.
Please NOTE: This is a freestanding award, and thus is not part of an awards symposium. There
will be a single award winner for the best pediatrics abstract, as evaluated by qualified SNM
committee members within the Pediatrics category. The award will be presented at the Pediatrics
Council Business Meeting during the Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, and will be
recognized during a Pediatrics scientific session in which the Presenting Author will be notified
in March 2007.
To be considered for the award:
•
Authors must check the "Pediatric Council Young Investigator Award" during online
abstract submission
• Abstracts must be submitted to the Pediatrics category, located within the General
Clinical Specialties track.
• Applicants must choose "Oral or Poster" as the desired presentation type. “Poster Only”
submissions will not be considered.
• Applicants are encouraged to submit supporting data to allow better evaluation of their
work by SNM peer review teams. Supporting data may include 1 table, and/or 1 image,
and/or a set of references. Supporting data is not publishable nor reproducible, and is
used solely for the purposes of peer reviews by a qualified team of experts in the field.
• Entry is open to presenting authors currently enrolled in or within five (5) years of a
completed certified training program.
• The abstract must be original research, not previously published or presented as a full
paper.
SNMTS Technologist Abstract Awards
Society of Nuclear Medicine Technologist Section Abstract Awards
Presented by the SNMTS to Technologists for outstanding presentations. They are judged by
SNMTS members of the Awards Committee at the SNM Meeting. First, second, and third place
are awarded for both oral and poster presentations with plaques and monetary gifts for top
awards. The winners are announced at the SNMTS business meeting, held onsite at the Annual
Meeting. Presenters are requested to attend the meeting to receive their awards.
Cardiovascular Council Outstanding Technologist Abstracts Award
Presented by the Cardiovascular Council to Technologists with outstanding presentations related
to Cardiovascular Research.
Brain Imaging Council Outstanding Technologist Abstracts Award
Presented by the Brain Imaging Council to Technologists with outstanding presentations related
to Brain Imaging Research.
Monetary Prizes for Technologist Awards:
Scientific Paper Awards
First Place ($500 and plaque)
Second Place ($300 and plaque)
Third Place ($200 and plaque)
Scientific Poster Awards
First Place ($200 and plaque)
Second Place ($150 and plaque)
Third Place ($100 and plaque)
Cardiovascular Council Abstract Awards
First Place ($300, certificate)
Second Place ($200, certificate)
Third Place (certificate)
Brain Imaging Council Abstract Awards
First Place ($300 and plaque)
Second Place ($200, certificate)
Third Place (certificate)
Monetary Prizes for Technologist Student Abstract Awards
Technologist Student Abstract Awards
First Place ($100 and plaque)
Second Place ($50 and plaque)
Third Place (no monetary award, plaque)
TRAVEL AWARDS (Technologist Student Abstracts ONLY)
SNMTS will continue to offer $500 awards to cover travel expenses for 10 technologist students
who will be presenting their accepted abstracts at SNM’s 54th Annual Meeting June 2–6 in
Washington, DC. These awards are funded by the SNMTS Professional Development and
Education Fund (PDEF).
The SNM supports education and research in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging through
competitive grants and awards funded by the Education and Research Foundation (ERF) for the
SNM and the SNMTS Professional Development and Education Fund (PDEF).
For more information on the Student Travel Awards and other student technologist award
opportunities, please go to the SNM Grants, Awards, and Scholarships page at:
http://interactive.snm.org/index.cfm?PageID=1083&RPID=2324.