2020 Best VPHi Thesis Award in In silico Medicine

The “Best VPHi Thesis Award in In Silico Medicine”, instituted for the first time by the VPHi at the VPH2018 conference in Zaragoza, has been consolidated as a permanent annual initiative. The goal is to reward individuals for outstanding achievements during their PhD thesis based on:

• Capacity or knowledge gap
• Methodological Approach
• Research outputs
• International integration

The award consists of a money price of 1000 €. The winner will also be invited to give a lecture at the upcoming VPH2020 Conference, that will be held from the 26th to the 28th of August in Paris (France). Full information can be found here: https://vph2020.sciencesconf.org/

An ad hoc award committee, composed by both academia and industry representatives, will be established, chaired by Jerome Noailly (UPF) from the VPHi student committee.

Participation rules:Only theses defended between 1/1/2019 and 31/12/2019will be considered for the award. Each participant will have to submit:

• A 4-page curriculum vitae 
• A full overview of publications (journal, conference etc.)
• A recommendation letter by the candidate’s PhD supervisor detailing why the applicant is a deserving candidate
• A 2-page research summary including
• Scientific question addressed in PhD
• Technologies used/developed
• The most important research results
• Novelty
• Impact
• Future steps
• The PhD diploma in pdf format (or a certificate if the diploma has not yet been delivered)
• A pdf document of the complete final PhD thesis (max 10 MB).

This information will have to be sent by email to: manager@vph-institute.org. Please name all your documents:  lastname_name initial_documentname.pdf

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Are you a VPHi student member?

You are considered a rightful student member, if you:

• Are affiliated to either an ordinary or a supporting member. Please check if your institution is in the list:
• https://www.vph-institute.org/membership/ordinary.html
• www.vph-institute.org/membership/supporting.html.
• Have already applied for a student membership. Your name in this case should appear here: www.vph-institute.org/membership/student.html

If you are not a member yet and you wish to apply now, the VPHi student membership comes at a symbolic cost of 10 € per year. Please fill up this form to process your application: http://www.vph-institute.org/register.html. 

For any further questions, please contact manager@vph-institute.org.

Deadline: The application should be sent by 30 April 2020.

You can download the application rules in PDF here