Awards

Postdoctoral Career Development Awards

Up to five ASMS Postdoctoral Career Development Awards in the amount of $5,000 each will be presented annually. The purpose of the award is to promote the professional career development of postdoctoral fellows in the field of mass spectrometry. Activities envisioned for this award include, but are not limited to, conference and workshop attendance, travel to other mass spectrometry laboratories, and purchase of personal professional items such as books, software, or laptops.

Deadline to apply is November 30. Scroll down for eligibility and details on application process.

2024 Postdoc Career Development Award Recipients

Download full 2024 ASMS Awards Announcement

Postdoc - Liu
Xingyu Liu
Washington University in St. Louis

Postdoc - Roberts
David S. Roberts
Stanford University

Postdoc - Su
Pei Su
 Northwestern University

Postdoc - Trinklein
Timothy J. Trinklein
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Postdoc - Xu
Shuling Xu
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Eligibility & How To Apply

ELIGIBILITY

Applicant must:

  • be a member of ASMS;
  • be a postdoctoral fellow within three years of completing a Ph.D. or equivalent degree;
  • be currently appointed as a postdoctoral fellow in North America (e.g., in academia, industry, a government or national laboratory or at a research institute);
  • may not have previously received an award under this program; and
  • be appointed as a postdoctoral fellow during the entire period of the award (June 1 – May 31).
Fiscal Requirements for award recipients. The award is $5,000 to the institution or institution-related foundation for the exclusive use by the awardee. Funds may not be used to subsidize the awardee’s salary. Laboratory supplies, accessories, instrumentation or instrumentation upgrades are also not eligible expenses for award funds. The funds are to be expended on activities that enhance the awardee’s professional development including, but are not limited to, conference and workshop attendance, travel to other mass spectrometry laboratories, and purchase of personal professional items such as books, software, or laptops. In accepting this award, the awardee’s institution must agree to not charge overhead on the funds. Funds must be expended before the end of the postdoctoral fellowship. Funds granted under this program may not be be transferred to a different institution in the event the awardee moves, and unused funds must be returned to ASMS.

HOW TO APPLY
  1. Complete and submit the online application.
  2. Insure that required support letters are sent to info@asms.org by the November 30 deadline.
Information and Elements Needed for the Online Application
  • Fiscal proposal and justification (two-page max)
    This document will explain how the $5,000 award will be used to enhance the applicant’s professional career development. Note: Salaries, laboratory supplies, accessories, instrumentation or instrumentation upgrades are not eligible expenses for award funds.
    For applications requesting funds to support a visit to another laboratory, a brief description of the expected research activities along with an estimate of the duration of the visit needs to be provided within the Fiscal Proposal and Justification. A 3rd support from the PI of the laboratory to be visited confirming willingness to host the applicant for the proposed experience is also required.

    SAMPLE Fiscal Proposal and Justification
      There is no required format, but you may use the attached sample as a guide for how to format and what to cover.
  • Curriculum Vitae (CV)
  • Support Letters. A minimum of two required letters must be sent to info@asms.org by the November 30 deadline.. IF requesting funds to support a visit to another laboratory a third letter from the PI of the lab to be visited to confirm willingness to host the applicant for the proposed experience.
    All support letters should be sent directly to info@asms.org. Applicant will be prompted to list letter writer names in the online application.
    • Letter from applicant's Ph.D. advisor (required)
    • Letter from applicant's post-doctoral mentor (required)
    • Letter from proposed host PI (required only if funds will be used to support visit from another lab)

Review and Ranking of Candidates. The ASMS President will appoint a review committee to rank the candidates based on their proposals and letters of recommendation. The awards will be presented at the ASMS Business Meeting at the annual conference.

Go to online application

 

Past Recipients of Postdoctoral Career Development Awards

2024

Xingyu Liu
Washington University in St. Louis
David S. Roberts
Stanford University
Pei Su
 Northwestern University
Timothy J. Trinklein
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Shuling Xu
University of Wisconsin-Madison

2023

Emma Guiberson
Stanford University
Haiyan Lu
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Melanie Odenkirk
Colorado State University
Suttipong Suttapitugsakul
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Yixuan Xie
Washington University Medical School

2022

Yangjie Li
Stanford University
Xin Ma
Georgia Institute of Technology
Melissa Pergande
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Stephanie Rankin-Turner
Johns Hopkins University
Hua Zhang
University of Wisconsin-Madison

2021

Hilary Brown
Naval Air Warfare Center
Mahmud Iqbal
University of Florida
Sylwia Stopka
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Fernando Tobias
The Ohio State University
Matthew Waas
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

2020

Juan Aristizabal Henao
University of Florida
Wout Bittremieux
University of California, San Diego
Kevin Clark
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology
Kelly Karch
The Ohio State University
Lindsay Pino
University of Pennsylvania

2019

Christopher Ashwood Medical College of Wisconsin
Josue Baeza
University of Pennsylvania
Gongyu Li
University of Wisconsin
Jared Kafader
Northwestern University
Nicholas Riley
Stanford University

2018

Martha Chacón-Patiño
NHMFL
Mac Gilliland
UNC, Chapel Hill
Alan Jarmusch
UCSD
Shen Zhang
Mt Sinai Hosp, Univ of Toronto
Yanlong Zhu
University of Wisconsin

2017

Bushra Amin
University of Pittsburgh
Andrea Carra
University of Minnesota
Romel Dator
University of Minnesota
Charles Nichols
Vanderbilt University

2016

John Cahill
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Andrew DeBlase
Purdue University
Catherine Going
Stanford University
Pengyuan Liu
The Wistar Institute

2015

Martin Paine
Georgia Institute of Technology
Valentina Pirro
Purdue University
Gloria Sheynkman
Harvard Medical School

2014

Huilin Li
University of California, Los Angeles
Boone Prentice
Vanderbilt University
Hao Zhang
Washington University at St. Louis