CRS Young Investigator Award

Criteria:
This award recognizes a CRS member, age 40 years or younger on December 31 of the current year, who has made outstanding contributions in the science of controlled release.

Nomination Process:
Nominations may be submitted by a member of CRS.

Nomination Packet should include:

• Awards and honors
• Memberships in societies
• Service to societies
• Research grants received
• Publications, grouped as: refereed publications, nonrefereed publications, proceedings, abstracts, patents, other publications. Include publications in press but not submitted or in preparation.
• Other activities
• Two supporting recommendation letters are required and are the responsibility of the Sponsor.

Completed nomination packets should be sent to CRS headquarters attention Linda Schmitt or PDF files emailed to lschmitt@scisoc.org no later than January 31, 2010.

Selection Process:
The Young Investigator Award Committee will be responsible for the selection of the awardee.

Award:
The awardee will receive:

• $3,000 Award
• Complimentary Annual Meeting and Exposition Registration
• Special Award
• Complimentary ticket to the closing banquet
• Award Winner to Give a Presentation at the 37th CRS Annual Meeting & Exposition

Notification:
Awardee will be notified no later than April 15, 2010.

CRS - Young Investigators Award 2010 Winner
Dr. Krish Roy received his B.S. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, followed by his M.S. degree from Boston University and Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins. Thereafter, he joined Zycos Inc., a biotechnology company where he served first as a scientist and then as a senior scientist in the Drug Delivery Research group. Dr. Roy left his industrial position to join the University of Texas at Austin in 2002, where he is currently the General Dynamics Endowed Faculty Fellow in Engineering and associate professor of biomedical engineering. Dr. Roy’s research interests are in the area of controlled release technologies and biomedical polymers, especially for drug and gene delivery, as well as stem cell therapy applications. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and has received numerous awards and honors, including the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Biomaterials, the Young Scientist Award from HSEMB, NSF CAREER Award, Global Indus Technovator Award from MIT, the CRS Cygnus Award, Coulter Foundation Translational Research Award, Whitaker Foundation Bioengineering Award, etc. Since January 2006, he has been serving as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Controlled Release.