The Society of Biological Psychiatry offers an annual award of $5,000 to recognize outstanding research investigations in biological psychiatry. 

 

GUIDELINES

1. No application is required for this award.
2. The 15 highest ranked original investigations, among the archival reports in Biological Psychiatry, based upon peer review scores, are provided to the Ziskind-Somerfeld Award Committee by the Biological Psychiatry editorial office.  The award committee members review each paper independently and the highest rated paper is considered the award paper.
3. The award winner is the first author of the award paper.
4. In the event that there are two first authors, the prize will be shared evenly among the first authors.
5. Special consideration is given to the originality of the approach and independence of thought in the archival report.
6. The studies and the data must not have been published elsewhere.

The award will be presented by the President of the Society during the 68th Annual Meeting, May 16-18, 2013 in San Francisco, California.
 

PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS (partial listing)

2002	Not Awarded
2003	Marilyn J. Essex, PhD - University of Wisconsin
2004	Christopher L. Coe, PhD - University of Wisconsin
2005	Bennett A. Shaywitz, MD - Yale University
2006	Johannes Schumacher, MD - University of Bonn
2007	Elizabeth F. C. van Rossum, MD - Erasmus Medical Center - The Netherlands
2008	Tracy Bale, PhD - University of Pennsylvania Sarah L. Teegarden, BS - University of Pennsylvania
2009	Susan L. Christian, PhD - University of Chicago
2010	Tania Roth, PhD - University of Alabama
2011	Melissa Malvaez, MS - University of California, Irvine
2012	Philipp Ottis, MSc & Verian Bader, MSc - Henrich Heine University Medical Center -Düsseldorf, Germany

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