I just received an announcement for the GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists.

About the prize

At GE and Science we believe in rewarding the best young scientists around the world. Which is why we want to hear from you if you’ve been awarded a PhD in molecular biology during 2007.

Submit a 1,000 word essay on your work before August 1, 2008, and you could be the winner of the prestigious GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists. There are also four regional prize winners from North America, Europe, Japan and the rest of the world. The winners will:

• fly to Stockholm for the award ceremony
• meet some of the Nobel Prize laureates
• have their PhD profiled in the online version of Science
• receive $25,000 or $5,000 for regional winners

To see what happened in Stockholm last year

The prize, which is sponsored by GE and Science was established in 1996 to help bring science to life by recognizing outstanding PhDs from around the world.

* For the purpose of this prize molecular biology is defined as “that part of biology which attempts to interpret biological events in terms of the physicochemical properties of molecules in a cell” -(McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th Edition).