Neal Miller New Investigator Award

In keeping with the Academy’s interdisciplinary traditions, the award will be given to an early-career physician or scientist for outstanding research in one or more of the following areas:

1. Interaction between behavior and biological mechanisms in homeostasis, health maintenance, disease pathophysiology, or illness susceptibility.

2. Development or evaluation of behaviorally based therapeutic interventions for the primary prevention, secondary prevention, or treatment of disease or injury.

3. Basic theoretical or empirical studies in any scientific discipline with implications for behavioral medicine research, including mathematics, instrumentation, methods of analysis, studies of fundamental brain mechanisms including anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, or pharmacology of regulatory systems.

ABMR members are encouraged to nominate outstanding junior faculty for this year’s award. The selection committee is particularly interested in nominees at the Assistant Professor rank, which might be eligible for membership in ABMR within a few years of receiving the award. This emphasis reflects the committee’s goal of using the award as a pipeline to recruit and engage new members. With that said, post-doctoral fellows, instructors, and candidates in other faculty positions(at a rank less than Associate Professor) will also be considered.