Hoechst Marion Roussel Young Scholars Awards

H. S

ASH/Hoechst Marion Roussel Young Scholars Awards The American

Society of Hypertension

is pleased to announce

the 1999 recipients of the ASH HMR

Young Scholars Awards:

Nicholas R. Ferreri, PhD New York Medical College Valhalla, NY Stephen R. Shorofsky, MD, PhD University of Maryland at Baltimore Baltimore, MD Rhian M. Touyz, MD, PhD University of Montr6al Montreal, Qukbec, Canada The Young Scholars Awards are supported by an educational grant from Hoechst Marion Roussel and recognize the achievements of outstanding investigators in the field of hypertension. The awards are in the amount of $10,000 each: a $2500 investigator’s laboratory.

award to the investigator and a $7500

award to support research in the

l Eligibility Candidates must have received an advanced professional degree within the past 15 years and be currently active in research in hypertension or related cardiovascular diseases. Only applicants born in North America or with a permanent US visa will be considered.

GApplication

Procedure

Interested candidates should submit a full curriculum vitae and bibliography, together with one letter of recommendation (from an ASH member), two representative publications, and a black-and-white photograph to Scholars Meeting. deadline

be used in the ASH Fifteenth Scientific Meeting program book. Applications for the2000 Young Awards may be included with the submission of one or more abstracts for the Fifteenth Scientific Recipients will be selected on the basis of all of their research, not the submitted abstract. The for applications for the 2000 Young Scholars Awards will be December 7, 1999. Applications will

be reviewed

by the Scientific Awards Committee

of the American

Society of Hypertension.