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Searle Scholars Program: Selection and Evaluation of Searle Scholars--Douglas M. Fambrough
Searle Scholars Program: Selection and Evaluation of Searle Scholars--Douglas M. Fambrough
Pages 43-51
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This idea evolved into the Searle Scholars Program, which is funded through grants from the family trusts to the Chicago Community Trust and administered by the Kinship Foundation in Northbrook, Illinois. Searle family members and founding director Cedric Chernick identified the need to fund exceptional young scientists just as their independent research careers were beginning.
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THE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD The success of the program rests on the selection of young scientists who subsequently develop and sustain research programs that have a major impact on the progress of science and/or who subsequently make major contributions to science through their leadership. The selection of Searle scholars is based on recommendations made by the program's Scientific Advisory Board.
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The program uses a two-step review process in which the applicant pool is first reduced to about 40 finalists, who are then evaluated further at a two-day meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board. Two rounds of discussion of the candidates lead to selection of 15 new Searle Scholars.
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• All application abstracts sent to each advisory board member: ~October 10.
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To help with the first-round reviewing process, advisors are given score sheets that have been developed through discussions with the Scientific Advisory Board over many years. The categories for scoring are Originality of Research, Feasibility of Research, Potential Impact on Field, the applicant's Training and References, and the applicant's Publications.
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At the two-day Scientific Advisory Board meeting, the finalists are each discussed on the first day, and each finalist is given a score based on balloting by the advisors. The deliberation on each candidate is focused largely on two questions: • Has the candidate significantly affected the direction of research in the labs where she/he was a graduate student and a postdoctoral fellow?
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. TABLE 1 Searle Scholars Elected to the National Academy of Sciences Searle Searle Searle "Class" "Class" "Class" Elaine Fuchs 1981 Douglas Rees 1984 Daniel Littman 1986 Stuart Schreiber 1982 Michael Levine 1985 Iva Greenwald 1987 Frederick Alt 1983 Peter Schultz 1985 Ronald Vale 1987 Douglas Melton 1983 Matthew Scott 1985 David Page 1989 Roger Tsien 1983 Joseph Takahashi 1985 Marc Tessier-Lavigne 1991 Peter Walter 1983 Chi-Huey Wong 1985 Cornelia Bargmann 1992 Carlos Bustamante 1984 Constance Cepko 1986 Stephen Mayo 1994 Michael Karin 1984 Cynthia Kenyon 1986 Jennifer Doudna 1996
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The excep tional track record of former Searle scholars -- which speaks to the seri ousness with which the advisory board selects scholars -- brings imme diate validation. The award contributed to my recruitment of several outstanding gradu ate students in my first year.
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Rising to leadership positions, they have received numerous other awards that reflect both their promise and accomplishments. Qualitative evaluation of the program has been accomplished through tracking of all former scholars, through perusal of the database of their current positions, through noting their publications and the awards they have received, through testimonials from the scholars themselves, and through the enthusiastic commitment of the program's distinguished Scientific Advisory Board.
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