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Call for Nominations: 2025 Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards

Studies published in a peer-reviewed journal during calendar year 2024 are eligible

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The Clinical Research Forum has opened the call for nominations for the Annual Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards.

The awards recognize outstanding achievements in clinical research from across the nation and honor major advances in the biomedical field resulting from the nation's investment in health and welfare.

Nominations for outstanding research projects should:

  • Represent innovation, creativity and scientific advancement
  • Contribute to the understanding of human disease and/or human physiology
  • Demonstrate impact on the prevention, diagnosis and/or treatment or increased understanding of the disease state

Three of the studies will receive additional recognition and cash awards.

  • Herbert Pardes Clinical Research Excellence Award — $7,500 is awarded to the one study that best exemplifies a high degree of innovation and creativity, advances science, and has an impact upon human disease.
  • Distinguished Clinical Research Achievement Award — $5,000 is awarded to two studies that show creativity, innovation, or a novel approach that demonstrates an immediate impact on the health and well-being of patients.

All Top 10 winners will also be interviewed for the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science.

For more information, and to submit a nomination, visit www.clinicalresearchforum.org.

UPDATED submission due date: Friday, October 18, 2024.

Research studies eligible for nomination must have been conducted at a U.S. institution and published in a peer-reviewed journal between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024. A letter or e-mail from a peer-reviewed journal confirming a publication date prior to January 1 is acceptable.

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