Mayo Clinic Alumni Association Edward C. Kendall Award for Meritorious Research

Presented annually, the Mayo Clinic Alumni Association Edward C. Kendall Award for Meritorious Research is awarded in recognition of outstanding research conducted by an individual whose primary appointment is in research. Recipients receive an award of $2,000 and a certificate of accomplishment from the Mayo Clinic Alumni Association.

Selection criteria

The nominee must an M.D. or Ph.D. who received their doctoral degree within the past five years and currently holds a postdoctoral research training appointment (includes research fellows and research associates, but not fellows eligible for the Balfour Award or visiting scientists) approved by the Mayo Clinic Research Committee, or has completed the appointment within the past year. The research used to support nomination should be done at Mayo Clinic during the individual’s first postdoctoral fellowship. Criteria considered include:

• Originality of ideas
• Excellence of planning
• Execution and recording of research
• Significance of results
• Initiative and independent work by the nominee in accomplishing the research

In the selection process, no distinction will be made based on the source of research funding, and final acceptance for publication of the research is not a prerequisite for award consideration.

A selection committee of scientists from Mayo Clinic and the Mayo Clinic Alumni Association make the final determination.

Nominate

Members of the Mayo Clinic faculty should submit the following to make a nomination:

• A completed nomination form
• A letter of nomination describing in detail how the nominee meets the award criteria
• 1-2 page summary from nominee describing their greatest research contributions and why
• The nominee’s curriculum vitae and bibliography
• Letters of recommendation (three required, no additional letters accepted)
• Nomination deadline: December 15, 2023

 Recipients

Year	Recipient	Year	Recipient
2023	Omid Jahanian, Ph.D.	2022	Colleen M. Bartman, Ph.D.
2021	Sara Ranjbar, Ph.D.	2020	Yang Chen, Ph.D.
2019	Mohamed Seisa, M.D.	2018	Pengfei Song, Ph.D.
2017	Rene Rodriguez-Gutierrez, M.D., MSc	2016	Jacqueline K. Limberg, Ph.D.
2015	Almudena J. Martinez Fernandez, Ph.D.	2014	Jill N. Barnes, Ph.D.
2013	Clifford D. L. Folmes, Ph.D.	2012	Darren P. Casey, Ph.D.
2011	Jennifer Whitwell, Ph.D.	2010	Ulrike Modder, Ph.D.
2009	Junhong Han, Ph.D.	2008	Anantha V. Santhanam, Ph.D.
2007	Farid Mitri, Ph.D.	2006	Alejandro Chade, M.D.
2005	Liewei Wang, M.D., Ph.D.	2004	Ali Canbay, M.D.
2003	Joerg Herrmann, M.D.	2002	Eduardo N. Chini, M.D.
2001	Christine Spitzweg, M.D.	2000	Lorenz Hofbauer, M.D.
1999	James A. Levine, M.D., Ph.D.	1998	Jagjit Gill, Ph.D.
1997	Martin Holtmann, M.D.	1996	Chuanyue Wu, Ph.D.
1995	Larry M. Karnitz, Ph.D., and Grigory Krapivinsky, Ph.D.	1994	Chi-Ming Wei, M.D., Ph.D.
1993	Merry Jo Oursler, Ph.D.	1992	Jian-Yu Lu, Ph.D.
1991	James Lechleiter, Ph.D.	1990	Motoyasu Ishii, M.D.
1989	Subhashis Banerjee, M.D., and Gobinda Sarkar, Ph.D.	1988	Wolf Stapelfeldt, M.D.
1987	Rebecca S. Bahn, M.D.	1986	Fernando Azpiroz, M.D.
1985	Ronald Tucker, Ph.D.	1984	Barbara Beck, Ph.D.
1983	Steven Ackerman, Ph.D.	1982	Paula Tracy, Ph.D.
1981	Michael Nesheim, Ph.D.