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<div><b>Deadline: November 2, 2009</b></div>
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<div>The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and
the National Postdoctoral Association are accepting
nominations for the inaugural Kauffman Foundation Outstanding
Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Award, which recognizes and celebrates a
scientific researcher who has successfully commercialized his or her
discoveries through entrepreneurship. The researcher must have
completed postdoctoral research in the United States at some point in
his/her career.</div>
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<div><b>Nominations for the award are open to scientific researchers
who have completed postdoctoral research in the United States and have
founded companies to commercialize their intellectual property.</b>
Nominees will be evaluated primarily on their technical innovation and
the social value their enterprises have produced.</div>
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<div>The researcher selected to win the Outstanding Postdoctoral
Entrepreneur Award will receive a $10,000 honorarium. A second award,
the Emerging Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Award, will present a $2,500
honorarium to a promising postdoctoral entrepreneur. Both awards will
be presented at the National Postdoctoral Association's 8th Annual
Meeting on March 12-14, 2010, in Philadelphia.</div>
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<div>Nomination forms are available on the National Postdoctoral
Association's Web site:</div>
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href="http://www.nationalpostdoc.org/outstanding-award"
>http://www.nationalpostdoc.org/outstanding-award</a></div>
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Debra L. Martin, Programs Manager<br>
MIT<br>
Vice President for Research Office, Rm 11-268<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
617-258-0310, 617-252-1003 (fax)<br>
debra@mit.edu</div>
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