SBIC Early Career Award for 2009
2008 October
Nominations are now invited for the 2009 Early Career Award. Details of the criteria and procedures can be found on the SBIC Awards page. The deadline for receipt of nominations is 31 December 2008.

The award will be presented to an early career scientist (no more than 15 years post-Ph.D. at the nomination deadline) who has already accomplished distinguished research in biological inorganic chemistry. To be eligible for the award, the candidate must hold SBIC membership since the prior ICBIC. Both the 2008 and 2009 awardees will be invited to present their award lectures at ICBIC 14 in Japan.

2008 SBIC Early Career Award Winner Announced!
2008 March 1
We are happy to announce that the winner of the 2008 SBIC Early Career Award is Professor J. Martin Bollinger of Pennsylvania State University, USA. Dr. Bollinger will receive the award plaque at a special ceremony in Nagoya at ICBIC 14 in summer 2009 and will deliver the award lecture. Our congratulations to Dr. Bollinger on this exceptional accomplishment. Please note that a competition for the 2009 award will occur also before ICBIC 14. The deadline for nominations will be 31 December 2008.

SBIC Early Career Award Goes Annual
2007 October 1
SBIC Council has approved a plan to change the frequency of the SBIC Early Career Award from every two years to every year. We have initiated the competition for the 2008 award and nominations are invited. Details of the criteria and procedures can be found on the SBIC Awards web page. The deadline for receipt of nominations is 31 December 2007.

In brief, the award will be presented to an early career scientist (no more than 15 years post-Ph.D. at the nomination deadline) who has already accomplished distinguished research in biological inorganic chemistry. To be eligible for the award, the candidate must hold SBIC membership since the prior ICBIC. Both 2008 and 2009 awardees will be invited to present their award lectures at ICBIC 14 in Japan.

SBIC 2007 Election of Officers—Results
2007 July 1
Congratulations to these new SBIC officers:

• Trevor Hambley, President-Elect (will serve as President 2008-2010)
• Britt-Marie Sjöberg, Council Member (2007-2011)
• Victoria J. DeRose, Council Member (2007-2011)

Both Lucia and Ken deserve special thanks as they have served the Society extremely well for many years in their roles as Secretary and Treasurer, respectively. They are both continuing to serve in other roles, Lucia as Chair of the SBIC Nominations Committee, and Ken in his continued role on the ICBIC International Organizing Committee.

Recipients of SBIC Student Travel Awards
2007 May 5
Congratulations to the following students who have been awarded SBIC Student Travel Grants to attend ICBIC13 in Vienna:

• Kevin Barnese, UCLA
• Loes E Bevers, Delft University of Technology
• Hugo MRC Botelho, University of Lisbon
• Alistair V Dias, University of Toronto
• Karrera Yani Djoko, University of Melbourne
• Ariadna Garza Ortiz, Leiden University
• Kieran Steve Hadler, University of Queensland
• Amanda S Hakemian, Northwestern University
• Monika Nøhr Johannessen, Technical University of Denmark
• Lindsay E Kane, UCLA
• Sónia CAD Leal Solano, University of Lisbon
• Barbara Agnes Leitenmaier, University of Konstanz
• Herman Lelie, UCLA
• Oksana I Leszczyszyn, University of Warwick
• Yanjie Li, University of Toronto
• Jin Lu, University of Warwick
• Thanh Ngu, University of Western Ontario
• Ami D Patel, Northwestern University
• Emily Que, UC Berkeley
• Sara S Rocks, University of Rochester
• Sowmya Subramanian, University of Georgia
• Arthur D Tinoco, Yale University
• Sheila C Wang, University of Toronto
• Louise Wedlock, University of Western Australia
• Gerhild Zauner, Leiden University
• Matthias Zimmermann, University of Melbourne

First SBIC Early Career Award Winner Announced!
2007 March 1
We are happy to announce that the first winner of the SBIC Early Career Award is Professor Yi Lu of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. Dr. Lu will receive the award at a special ceremony in Vienna at ICBIC13 this summer and will deliver the award lecture. Our congratulations to Dr. Lu on this exceptional accomplishment.

The selection committee wishes to commend all the nominees for this first award, noting that this was a particularly strong field that bodes well for future awards.

Applications for Organizing Forthcoming ICBICs
2007 January 1
Applications for organizing one of the forthcoming ICBICs (International Conferences on Biological Inorganic Chemistry) should be made to:

Professor Kenneth D. Karlin
Secretary of the ICBIC International Organizing Committee
c/o Department of Chemistry, Remsen Hall
The Johns Hopkins University
Charles & 34th Streets
Baltimore, MD 21218
U.S.A.
Email: karlin@jhu.edu

Applications should contain the name(s) of the main organizer(s), the location and, if possible, (a) letter(s) of (an) organisation(s) (e.g., of the chemical or biochemical society of a country, or a university/department) willing to support the event. In general, at a given ICBIC the International Organizing Committee of the ICBICs (which consists of one chair person of each previous ICBIC) meets and decides about the ICBIC to be held in six years' time. Consequently, at a given ICBIC, the organizer of the next ICBIC invites the audience to participate at the ICBIC she/he is organizing and in addition the locations of two more ICBICs are made public.

SBIC Early Career Award
2006
We invite nominations for the first SBIC Early Career Award. Nomination guidelines can be found on our SBIC Awards page.

The SBIC Early Career Award will be presented biennially at ICBICs to an early career scientist (no more than 15 years post-PhD at the nomination deadline) who has already accomplished "distinguished research in biological inorganic chemistry." To be eligible for the award, the candidate must hold SBIC membership since the prior ICBIC. The awardee will receive a US$1,000 prize and a commemorative plaque. In addition, the awardee will be invited to present the "SBIC Early Career Award Lecture" at ICBIC13. We expect this to become a highly competitive and valuable recognition of excellence in our field.