Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation 2007 APPLICATION Deadline for Receipt: June 1, 2007

To honor the ground-breaking contributions of Dr. Rosalind Franklin and to inspire and support new generations of women in the field of genetics, the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation will fund a career development research award of $75,000 over three years ($25,000 per year) to a young woman geneticist from anywhere in the world, who is in her first one to three years of an independent faculty-level position in any realm of genetics. The award may be used for any purpose that advances the genetics research of the recipient except for salary support of the recipient herself. The award will be administered and the recipient chosen every three years by a joint committee appointed by the Genetics Society of America (GSA), the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), and the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation. The committee members may be chosen from the international genetics community. Amy E. Pasquinelli, the newest member of the review committee, received the first Rosalind Franklin Award in 2004. For more information about Amy E. Pasquinelli, the first recipient of the Rosalind Franklin Award, please also see page 2 of the January 2005 issue of GENEtics and page 3 of the May 2007 issue of GENEtics. Both can be found at http://www.genetics-gsa.org/. Both the GSA and the ASHG will advertise the award widely and will encourage applications from scientists world-wide.

Joint Committee to date:   Marian Carlson, PhD, Columbia University Beverly S. Emanuel, PhD, Children's Hospital Philadelphia Judith E. Kimble, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison Mary-Claire King, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle Amy Pasquinelli, PhD, University of California, San Diego Leena Peltonen-Palotie, MD, PhD, University of Helsinki and National Public Health Institute, Finland Janet D. Rowley, MD, PhD, University of Chicago   * This committee may be expanded at some future time.

If you have questions about submitting your application, please contact:   Elaine Strass, Executive Director 9650 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20814 Tel: 301-634-7301 Fax: 301-634-7079 E-mail: estrass@genetics-gsa.org