The ASCB Early Career Life Scientist Award is for an outstanding scientist who earned his doctorate no more than 12 years earlier and who has served as an independent investigator for no more than seven years. The winner speaks at the ASCB Annual Meeting and receives a monetary prize.

Awardees

• 2007 Abby Dernburg
• 2006 Karsten Weis
• 2005 Eva Nogales
• 2004 No award this year
• 2003 Frank Gertler
• 2002 Kathleen Collins and Benjamin Cravatt
• 2001 Daphne Preuss
• 2000 Erin O'Shea
• 1999 Raymond Deshaies