TWAS-Abdool Karim Award in Biological Sciences 2024 for Fellowship

TWAS-Abdool Karim Award in Biological Sciences 2024 for Fellowship
  •  Fellowship
  •  10-May-2024
  •   Africa
  • $$  USD5,000

This award, named after TWAS President Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim, is designed to honour women scientists in Least Developed African countries for their achievements in Biological Sciences. It carries a cash award of USD5,000 generously provided by Professor Abdool Karim.

TWAS is inviting nominations for the 2024 Award from all its members as well as science academies, national research councils, universities and scientific institutions in developing and developed countries.

Eligibility Criteria

  • The award recognizes women scientists for their achievements in Biological Sciences.
  • Eligible nominees for the 2024 award are female scientists nationals of a Least Developed African country who have been living and working there for at least two years immediately prior to their nomination. (i.e. from 01/02/2022);
  • Fellows of TWAS are not eligible
  • Self nominations and nominations from jury members will not be considered.

Offered Benefits

  • A cash award of USD5,000 generously provided by Professor Abdool Karim

Application Process

  •  While filling in the form, pay attention to the requirements for each field (e.g. maximum number of characters, file type, date format, etc.)
  • Run a check using the button of the form menu to verify that mandatory fields have been filled in and the data you entered are accepted. This also saves your form every time you run a check, you are taken to the last section of the form named "Submit". Use the form menu to navigate to the previous sections.
  • After you run a check, fields with NOT ACCEPTED OR MISSING DATA will be highlighted in RED.

Please note that once you have duly modified the content of one or more fields, the red highlight will not disappear until you run again a check.

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