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2024 Nobel Prizes
It was 2024 NOBEL PRIZE week and those honoured were:
- For PHYSICS John J. Hopfield (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA) and Geoffrey E. Hinton (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada);
"for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks",
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/summary/; - For CHEMISTRY David Baker (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA),
Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind, London, United Kingdom) and John M. Jumper (Google DeepMind, London, United Kingdom)
“for computational protein design”,
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/summary/; - For PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE Victor Ambros (UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA)
and Gary Ruvkun (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
“for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”,
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2024/summary/.
Congratulations to the new Nobel Laureates!
8th October, 2024.
2025 Varian Young Investigator Award
The Varian Young Investigator Award is intended to recognise a promising scientist within the first 4 years of their first independent faculty appointment and not exceeding 10 years after receipt of their Ph.D. The recipient will receive a prize of
$5,000 and provide a 20 minute talk. For further information, see:
https://enc-conference.org/Varian-Young-Investigator-Award/.
The nomination should include:
- Name of nominee, with nominee's affiliation, phone and e-mail
- CV of the nominee
- Name of nominator, address, phone, and e-mail address
- A brief (no more than 200 words) description of the work that forms the basis of the nomination
- A list of up to five relevant publications.
Please submit your nominations by January 1st, 2025 by e-mail to enc@enc-conference.org.
Many thanks in advance for your contributions.
2nd November, 2025.
