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In 1901, the widow of Edward N. Gibbs, a patient of Dr. Edward Janeway, established the Edward N. Gibbs Memorial Endowment to award a prize to a physician in practice in the United States for the best original work in the etiology, pathology, and treatment of the diseases of the kidney. The first awardee was Donald W. Seldin, MD, William Buchanan Chair of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

The New York Academy of Medicine seeks nominations of physician scientists who have dedicated their careers to advances in nephrology or are presently making cutting-edge discoveries in the field. Candidates must hold an MD degree and be citizens of the United States to be considered for this award. The distinguished recipient of this honor will present his or her research at a lecture before a broad audience of scientists and clinicians, to be held at The New York Academy of Medicine in the fall of 2010. The award recipient will receive the Edward N. Gibbs Memorial Medal and an honorarium of $7,500; all travel expenses associated with the lecture will be paid by the Edward N. Gibbs Memorial Endowment. It is expected that the manuscript from this lecture will be submitted to a scholarly journal for publication.

Deserving individuals may be nominated by submitting a detailed letter, not to exceed three pages, outlining the importance of the candidate’s work and explaining why his or her research embodies seminal and significant contributions to the field of nephrology. Individuals who have been nominated previously but not selected may be nominated again, but a new submission is required. The candidate's curriculum vitae, and the names of three persons from whom references may be solicited, must accompany the letter of nomination. The combined materials must be forwarded as a single PDF document to the email below.

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