Agilent Early Career Professor Award

Sponsor Name: 
Agilent
Description of the Award: 

2017 Focus: Contributions to the development and advancement of techniques for the detection of nucleic acids, proteins, or other biomolecules in the context of Liquid Biopsy and its utilization for early detection, characterization and surveillance of cancer and other diseases and conditions.

The purpose of the Agilent Early Career Professor Award is to:

Promote and encourage excellent research enabling measurements of importance to Agilent Technologies and the world

Establish strong collaborative relationships between Agilent researchers and leading professors early in their career

Build the prominence of Agilent as a sponsor of university research

Selection Criteria

Significant original research contributions enabling measurements of importance to Agilent Technologies and the world

Outstanding potential for future research

Alignment with the 2017 Focus: Contributions to the development and advancement of techniques for the detection of nucleic acids, proteins, or other biomolecules in the context of Liquid Biopsy and its utilization for early detection, characterization and surveillance of cancer and other diseases and conditions.

Professor completed Ph.D. or M.D. less than 10 years before January 1, 2017.

Award Information

An unrestricted research award of $100,000 to be paid to the university in the professor's name

Paid over two years

Option to use all or part of award to obtain Agilent products at 50% discount

Option to accelerate payments to facilitate procurement of equipment with list price over $100k

The nomination form requires contact information, a summary of the nominee's qualifications and future directions (up to 1000 words), a nomination letter (up to 500 words) and a CV. Self-nominations are encouraged. Please do not include any proprietary information.

NEW APPLICATION PROCESS:

Go to Agilent Early Career Professor Award to apply.

PSU Downselect due date: Monday, December 12, 2016

Sponsor due date: Friday, January 13, 2017

Required for the application:

1. CV, which should include:

Education and academic background

Research and related experience

Publications, presentations and patents

Technical and profession recognition, awards, honors, and affiliations

2. Summary of expertise, should include contribution to measurement technology and future research directions (up to 1000 words).

3. Nomination letter. Self nominations are encouraged. Up to 500 words

Sponsor Final Deadline: 
Jan 13, 2017
To be considered as a Penn State institutional nominee, please submit a notice of intent by the date provided directly below.
Penn State OSVPR NOI Deadline: 
Monday, December 12, 2016 - 5:00pm
This limited submission is in downselect: 
Penn State may only submit a specific number of proposals to this funding opportunity. The number of NOIs received require that an internal competition take place, thus, a downselect process has commenced. No Penn State researchers may apply to this opportunity outside of this downselect process. To apply for this limited submission, please use this link: