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Transplantation has always been an academically oriented field. The decline in NIH funding, and the growing fiscal pressures requiring increased clinical productivity, both serve to disadvantage young transplant surgeons trying to secure NIH grants. Because of this, it is now more difficult for these young transplant surgeons to achieve promotion in tenure tracks, and to obtain tenure itself. However, promotion to Associate, or Full Professor, and the ability to obtain tenure still remain important goals for these individuals. Additionally, tenure track promotions committees may not appreciate the nature of original and seminal work that is of great importance to our field. Many institutions view federal funding as objective criteria to assess an individual’s body of scholarly work for originality, importance, and peer recognition. To demonstrate this in the absence of NIH funding, ASTS has established the "Rising Stars in Transplantation Surgery Award”, which gives recognition from the leading society of transplantation surgery that these individuals have made a significant, profound, or potentially transformative contribution to the discipline. 

Award Amount: Recipient(s) will receive a Certificate of Recognition, formal notification letter and letter of significance. 

Eligibility:

• Eligible nominees must be 6 – 15 years post fellowship.
• At least 2 nominations per individual must be received in order for the nominee to be considered eligible.

Submission Requirements:

• The nominators must provide a letter of support that specifically and explicitly addresses the awardee’s scholarly body of work and why it is of profound significance and/or of a transformative quality.
• The nominators will supply at least two examples of nominee’s papers, abstracts, or other evidence of the work.

Review Criteria

Up to 2 recipients will be selected. 

• Novelty: assessment of past accomplishments on individual's body of work
• Significance: assessment of past accomplishments on individual's body of work
• Overall Impact: assessment of the likelihood for the investigator and current area of research to exert a sustained, powerful influence on the research field involved. Impact score is an estimate of continued movement in the field based on current funding, potential for future funding, etc.