Award at a Glance
Award amount: $1,000, plus up to $2,000 for travel expense reimbursement, early registration for the American Physiology Summit and admission for two to the section banquet.
Nomination deadline: May 1
Questions? Contact: Yass Kobayashi, PhD, Chair, CEPS Awards Committee
Award Description
The August Krogh Distinguished Lectureship honors an APS member who has made major and meritorious contributions to the scientific areas represented by the Comparative & Evolutionary Physiology (CEPS) Section. The recipient will deliver a featured lecture on their research at the American Physiology Summit.
Award Criteria
Nominations will be evaluated based on:
- Scientific contributions to the field as evidenced by publications, grants, honors and awards.
- Professional activities related to supporting and advancing the APS mission or CEPS as well as advancing the field through mentoring activities.
Eligibility
Nominee must:
- Be an APS member in good standing with the rank of assistant professor or above or equivalent.
- Have made major major and meritorious contributions to the scientific areas represented by CEPS.
- Be nominated by a CEPS member.
The award is available by nomination only. Self-nominations are not permitted.
Nomination Requirements
A complete nomination must include:
- A nomination letter with a synopsis of the nominee's scientific contributions to the field of comparative and evolutionary physiology.
- No more than five letters of support from colleagues and trainees.
- The nominee’s curriculum vitae, including positions, honors and/or awards, grants, publications and current and past grant support.
- A list of mentees (e.g., K-12 students, undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty) that includes their name, level accomplishments, year of degree completion, and their current position.
- A list of professional activities, especially those relevant to the APS and/or CEPS.
A minimum of three nominees is required on the August Krogh Distinguished Lectureship ballot. If there are fewer than three nominees, additional nominees may be added to the ballot from a pool comprising of the previous three years' nominees. The addition of nominees shall be determined by vote of the CEPS Steering Committee. A nominee from the pool of prior nominees may appear on the ballot only if the nominator agrees to re-nominate the candidate. Candidates in the pool of previous years’ nominees may remain in the pool for a maximum of three years.
Condition of the Award
The recipient must deliver the award lecture at the Summit. They are also expected to attend the attend the CEPS Section banquet.
Nominators are responsible for confirming the nominee can attend the Summit. The awardee is responsible for arranging their travel funding beyond the reimbursement provided as part of the award.
About August Krogh
August Krogh, PhD (1874-1949), was a Danish professor of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1920 for discovering the mechanism of capillary regulation in skeletal muscle. His daughter, Bodil M. Schmidt-Nielsen, became the first female president of APS in 1975.