Founders Award (for Outstanding Leadership in Toxicology)
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Founders Award (for Outstanding Leadership in Toxicology) honors scientists for significant contributions and state-of-the-art approaches that advance toxicology’s role in human exposure safety decisions.
Funder: Society of Toxicology
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Cash stipend and a plaque presented at the SOT Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony
Summary: Recognizes outstanding scientific leadership advancing toxicology’s role in decisions about safe and unsafe human exposures.
Key Information: Nominees must be Full, Emeritus, or Retired Full members of the Society of Toxicology.
Description
The Society of Toxicology (SOT) Founders Award, sponsored by the SOT Endowment Fund, recognizes outstanding leadership in bringing toxicological science into safety decision-making. It honors scientists whose development or application of state-of-the-art approaches distinguishes, with a high degree of confidence, between safe and unsafe levels of human exposure to chemical and physical agents.
The award emphasizes significant contributions to toxicology and the scientific leadership needed to connect those advances with exposure-safety decisions. It is not limited to SOT’s Founding members. Recognition includes a cash stipend and a plaque presented at the SOT Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony.
