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!!Call for Nominations: The 2025 Academia Europaea Sydney Brenner Medal
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__The Sydney Brenner Medal honours the best in scholarship and personal achievements within a period of not more than 20 years after obtaining the PhD degree (with allowance for career breaks) by an individual scholar, working in the field of molecular biology and related disciplines.__
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[{Image src='Brenner_Sydney_0019p.jpg' caption='Professor Sydney Brenner' height='400' alt='Sydney Brenner' align='center'}]
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[The Academia Europaea (AE) Sydney Brenner Medal|Acad_Main/Activities/Awards_and_Prizes/Sydney_Brenner_Medal] (SBM) is a Medal established by the Class of Life Sciences (Class C) of AE during the 2022 Annual Meeting. It has been created in recognition of the substantial contribution to science of one of the founding members of the Academy - Sydney Brenner.
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The search and evaluation committee consists of the Chair of Class C. Plus, the Section Chairs of Class C, the initiators of the Medal ([John Wong|Member/Wong_John] MAE and [Balázs Gulyás|Member/Gulyás_Balázs] MAE) and __Byrappa Venkatesh__ (SG), [Sir Keith Peters|Member/Peters_Keith] MAE (UK), __Michael Hayden__ (CA) and __Philip Goelet__ (US).
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The first Sydney Brenner Medal call was announced in 2023 and [Professor Eugene YEO|Acad_Main/Activities/Awards_and_Prizes/Sydney_Brenner_Medal/Interview with Eugene Yeo] was awarded for his achievements in the Life Sciences.

!Call for Nominations

__Nominations should be submitted by AE members.__ Non-AE-member nominators are welcome to second the nomination. All academic nominations must be supported by detailed evidence of the suitability of any candidate. Due to the nature of the Medal, posthumous nominations are not eligible.
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Candidates are not restricted to members of the Academia Europaea. In case of a non-member is being judged suitable to receive the award, the award will come with an invitation and induction to membership.
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The Medallist will receive a __Bronze Medal of Sydney Brenner__ and a diploma and will deliver a __Sydney Brenner Memorial Lecture__, either at an annual meeting of AE, or at a dedicated Class C meeting. The travel and accommodation costs of the Medallist will be covered by AE.
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You are most welcome to submit a nomination using the  2025 nomination form  via email to Prof. Gulyás, Co-ordinator of the Sydney Brenner Medal search process, at [president@hun-ren.hu|mailto:president@hun-ren.hu], with a copy to the Academy secretariat at ([Execsec@acadeuro.org|mailto:Execsec@acadeuro.org]).
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If possible, please add the CV and the publication list of the candidate as well as a suggested ‘laudator’ of the candidate to your nomination.

!Download the [nomination form|AE_Sydney_Brenner_Medal_Nomination_form_2025.docx] (docx).
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__The closing date of the nomination period is the 31st of March 2025 (midnight GMT+1).__