Outstanding Young Investigator Awards

Guidelines   Eligibility   Selection Criteria   Awards

The Young Investigators Forum aimed at promoting more young researchers to discuss their active participation in studies and critically evaluate their research methods, promote conversations and share ideas that can educate, motivate and encourage young scientists in the areas of medicine, science, business and technology.

Young researchers representing universities, institutes, and different industries are asked to present a short oral presentation during the Forum. Each oral presentation in the appropriate track should have a length of 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes for questions and answers. Thus, the Forum calls for highly engaging and lively presentations.

Guidelines for Young Investigators Forum

Benefits

  • Demonstrate your research project in oral presentations.
  • Opportunity to learn most recent tools and technologies relevant to the field of your research.
  • Getting appropriate and timely information to advance research.
  • Facilitating Young Investigators to collaborate and helping to form effective partnering.
  • Prospect of providing for collegial interaction with other young investigators and established senior researchers worldwide.
  • Learn, interact and share the ideas with mentors and fellow researchers.
  • Helping Young Researchers to learn about leading edge research issues.
  • Dissemination of information on career prospects and actively helping to link Institutes of choice.
  • Fosters transcontinental cooperation, mutual agreement and engagement among young researchers.
  • YIF provides a unique opportunity to the invited researchers to enhance their own skills by being challenged by experienced researchers, academicians and practitioners and at the same time gain visibility in an international context.
  • Young Investigators Forum (YIF) is a key step in the production of new knowledge.
  • To provide young investigators with a friendly and constructive atmosphere in order to present their research and learn from each other.
  • To allow the development of key skills in presenting, writing abstracts and papers as well as to gain insight into an academic career.
  • To meet and network with other delegates and senior faculty members and to set up research collaborations.
  • To enable young investigators to contribute to the scientific development.

Eligibility

  • Post-Graduate students, Post-doctoral fellows, Trainees, and Junior faculty form the basis for Young Investigators Forum.
  • The chosen research topic shall fit into scientific sessions of the conference.
  • Only one paper (as first author or co-author) is permitted for each individual participant.
  • None of the established researchers or senior faculty members are allowed.
  • All the participants must not have attained the age of 33 years.
  • All submissions to be made in english only.

The prize winning papers considered for publication in the international journals once subjected to standard review procedures.

Prospective candidates applying for Young Investigator Award must fill the online application form provided below and send it along with the resume and a letter of recommendation from a research advisor or a senior faculty member to [email protected].

Criteria for Selection

  • YIF is a forum for young researchers and investigators to present new and ongoing work. Thus, the authors are encouraged to submit the papers on real-time original research.
  • The paper submitted by the author should not have appeared in any formally reviewed proceedings or journal by the time of submission.
  • Research topics must fit into general theme of the conference as outlined in call for abstracts.
  • The author must be a young researcher (as defined under eligibility) who will present the work during the forum.
  • Abstracts should not exceed 250 words. An example file is available for download.
  • To evaluate the technical quality of submission, we may request for clarification on omitted proofs.
  • Accepted abstracts will be compiled in abstract book which will be distributed among the attendees; this should not be considered as a formal publication. The participants are encouraged to submit an extended version of their presented work to any of our relavent international journals.
  • A two-phase screening process is employed, we will notify the author either rejection or conditional acceptance, accompanied with a description of required changes to be made with respect to content or format.
  • In the second phase, we will monitor whether the recommended changes have been implemented properly. This screening process will ensure the technical quality of the presented work.
  • Submissions that are not properly written, risk rejection, irrespective of their merits.
  • Authors are requested to have their submissions proofread by their research advisor or a senior faculty member or an experienced scientist.
  • YIF committee takes these parameters into consideration: the quality of the submissions, geographic distribution of participants, career stage of authors, and the motivation stated in the application form.

Awards & Rewards

The 'Young Investigator Award' is awarded to the best oral presentation, along with a presentation trophy and a certificate.

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