TCES Awards/Prizes
Apply for the TCES travel bursary
TCES travel bursaries are available for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers currently studying/working in the UK to attend conferences other than TCES, promoting the society at external meetings.
Applicants need to be TCES members who have already had an abstract accepted for the conference that they want to attend.
Application forms are available here
NEW for 2011: The Early Stage Researcher Award
Through this award, the TCES aims to identify the true future high flyers whilst they are still fledglings.
SELECTION: The lead author from each of the highest ranked 4 abstracts, (selected by the conference organisers) for oral presentation will be requested prior to the meeting. The lead author will be asked if they are (a) eligible and (b) willing to be submitted for the award by email. A panel of 4 committee members will attend and mark all the candidate talks. Each candidate will be asked to pre-submit a CV/application form as they do now and these will go to the marking committee members to be assessed along with the presentation. Once all 4 have been heard the committee panel will meet and agree the winner. The winner will be announced at the meeting end and invited give a brief acceptance, including a description of their career so far, and future aims.
[NOTE: the TCES committee will help the selection panel (ahead of the conference) by preparing a short written check list of high scoring achievements from the CV element.]
ESI award winners will receive a £250 cheque, with an invitation to submit an article on their profile and research to the TCES newsletter, together with mentoring from one member of the committee (subject to availability of individual committee members chosen).
Other Awards and Prizes
The June Wilson Award
This is in an annual award for the best female researcher in the area of biomaterials, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and/or histo-pathology techniques. This award is an endowment from Professor Larry Hench in commemoration of his late wife’s achievements in the field of biomedical materials research. The prize is £1000 and the opportunity to give a talk on their work at the IOM3 in May 2012 at a special London Materials Society (LMS) evening commemorating 5 years of the award. Professor Hench will then give a special seminar after the award talk. The nominee must be working in the area of interface of materials and medicine or biomaterials and must not yet have obtained a full-time position such as lecturer or a permanent position in industry or government.
Review of the applicants will be by the LMS Council with a list of the top three submitted to Professor Hench to select the final winner. Submissions are to be made to Dr. Ian Thompson, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Floor 23, Guy’s Tower. Guy’s Hospital, London, SE1 9RT, or i.thompson@kcl.ac.uk by 1st March 2012. The application should include a letter of application with the area and impact of the research and a copy of the applicant’s biography/ CV.
June Wilson was one of the first women to investigate the histo-pathology of materials, create the techniques to understand the mechanisms of bonding of bioactive materials to bone, discovered the concepts of soft tissue bonding to bioactive materials and identified the phenomenon of osteoproduction. She also led the pioneering efforts to obtain FDA approval of clinical use of bioactive glasses and mentored numerous students in Florida and London during her 30 year career in the field.
