Award Criteria

Award Criteria
The Executive Committee of the International Dose-Response Society has created an annual award of excellence for outstanding work in the field of low dose-response in the following three areas: Outstanding Career Achievement, Outstanding New Investigator and Outstanding Leadership. This award serves to identify and recognize scientists, scholars, and teachers who have contributed to a deeper understanding of the relationships between “dose and response” and/or to the distribution of that understanding to others. The awards are presented at our annual conference on, Dose-Response: Implications for Toxicology, Medicine, and Risk Assessment, at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst.

Guidelines for this award are as follows: 



Outstanding Career Achievement

  1. Significance of contribution to a field of science or engineering (as assessed by recognition by peers in the field, e.g., membership in NAS, NAE, professional societies). Focus on low dose response
  2. Level of contributions (as assessed by number of authored articles and/or books).
  3. Assumption of responsibilities (as assessed by positions held in academia, public sector, private sector)
  4. Longevity of contributions (as assessed by years of productivity)
    Volunteerism (as assessed by contributions to charitable organizations, not-for-profit groups, etc.)
  5. Educational contributions aimed at distributing information about low dose responses to other groups (as assessed by teaching, public presentations and/or publications aimed at communicating the importance of low dose to scientists and practitioner in other fields.)

Outstanding Leadership

  1. Assumption of responsibilities such as directing a committee group (e.g. AIHA´s ERPG committee, SOT´s Risk Assessment Subsection etc.)
  2. Years of service
  3. Number of publications in peer reviewed journals, low dose response focus
  4. Positions held in academia or industry
  5. Educational contributions aimed at distributing information about low dose responses to other groups (as assessed by teaching, public presentations and/or publications aimed at communicating the importance of low dose to scientists and practitioner in other fields.)

Outstanding New Investigator

  1. Relevancy of research to low dose response
  2. Recommendation from mentor(s)
  3. Membership in professional societies
  4. Indicators of promising career direction
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