期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2020
卷号：117
期号：18
页码：9660-9664
DOI：10.1073/pnas.2004997117
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：In 2006, the New York City-based Vilcek Foundation created an annual prize program for foreign-born biomedical scientists who have made major contributions to their fields while living and working in the United States. The founders, themselves immigrants from Czechoslovakia, established the program to raise public awareness of the indispensable role of immigrant scientists in ensuring the United States’ leadership on the world science stage. Recipients currently receive a cash award and commemorative sculpture designed by New York-based graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister. Over the past 15 years, scientists born in 12 different countries have been selected by a jury of peers to receive Vilcek Prizes, illustrating the diversity of backgrounds of immigrant scientists in the United States who become leaders in their fields of study. In 2009 the prize program was expanded to include a second tier of prizes, Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise, for a younger generation of foreign-born biomedical scientists who have risen to prominence among peers through noteworthy early-career accomplishments. Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise include a cash award and commemorative plaque. Currently, three recipients are chosen each year to receive Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise (The Foundation also honors outstanding immigrants working in the arts and humanities through a parallel track of the prize program).
