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Best PhD Thesis Award

Thank you for your continuous support. We regret to inform you that the deadline for announcing the winner of the Cells 2024 Best PhD Thesis Award has been postponed to 31 August 2025.

The editorial office would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Launched in 2021, the Cells Best PhD Thesis Award is annually presented to recognize young scholars who are judged to have completed the most outstanding PhD thesis in the field of cell biology, encouraging them to continue their outstanding work and further contribute to their field. Applications for this award are open from July every year, and winners are announced in the July of the following year.

The Prize:
– Bonus (CHF 800);
– An electronic certificate.

Number of Winners: 1

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Cells Best PhD Thesis Award

Winners announced

Eligibility and Requirements

  • The candidate must be a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential;
  • The PhD thesis must be their original work;
  • The PhD thesis must be defended in 2024.

List of Documents for Application

  • An executive summary of the PhD thesis in English of around 3000 words;
  • A letter from the PhD supervisor recommending the candidate for consideration for this award;
  • The candidate’s CV, including a list of publications connected with the thesis;
  • An electronic copy of the PhD thesis;
  • A scanned copy of the PhD diploma (or certificate of studying at a school or research institute as a PhD student going to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses).

Past Winners

Winner
  • NTNimmy Varghese Thiruthanathil
    Nimmy Varghese Thiruthanathil
    Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, USA
Award Committee
  • Alexander E. Kalyuzhny
    Alexander E. Kalyuzhny
    Chairman
    University of Minnesota

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