Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award

The Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award is a prize to inspire and support early-career women conducting genetics research in human and non-human mammals and in non-mammalian organisms. It recognizes women in the first one to three years of an independent faculty-level position whose work displays originality and scientific creativity. Three recipients are selected to receive a monetary award distributed over three years.

Monetary award of $75,000 distributed over three years and formal recognition by the Genetics Society of America.

Applicants should be women in the first one to three years of an independent faculty-level position, directing their own laboratory and listed as Principal Investigator on research from their lab; applicants may come from anywhere in the world.

Candidates may self-apply or be nominated; application must include two letters of recommendation. A jury of senior geneticists and previous awardees reviews applications and selects recipients.