2025 NAS GOLD MEDAL: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
We are pleased to call for nominations for the 2025 NAS Gold Medal Prize for Nigerian scientists in the life sciences.
Background
The NAS Gold Medal (Prize for Science) is an annual award in recognition of personal or group scientific excellence, which runs in two categories – life sciences and physical sciences – in alternate years respectively. This year’s prize will be awarded in the life sciences. The public announcement of a winner (or winners) will be made in November 2025, and the prize-giving ceremony will take place in January 2026.
Selection Criteria
The selection of candidates will be guided by the following criteria:
- Possession of a doctoral degree or its equivalent;
- Active involvement in the field of research in the life sciences;
- Scientific excellence demonstrated through published works, patents, innovations, and intellectual property rights of merit;
- Upright morality;
- Contribution to excellence in basic/fundamental or applied research, for a specific work done predominantly in Nigeria, with international resonance and potential applicability to the global community;
- Outstanding, original, groundbreaking achievements, widely accepted to contribute to the promotion and improvement of the human condition through the application of science.
Guidelines for Nomination
- The award is open to all Nigerian citizens within or outside the country (other than Fellows of the Nigerian Academy of Science)
- Any Nigerian citizen, including Fellows of the Nigerian Academy of Science, may nominate candidates
- Each nomination must be made by at least two people, one of whom is identified as the corresponding nominator whose biodata must accompany the nomination
- Nominations shall be made strictly according to the nomination format prescribed below, submitting only one nomination form per person (download the nomination form here)
- In addition to submitting the completed nomination form, signed by the candidate and nominators, nominations must be accompanied by:
- A concise two-page curriculum vitae of the nominee (using the prescribed format)
- A complete list of the candidate’s publications
- Copies of the candidate’s 10 most important publications (including those relevant to the specific work for which the nomination is being made)
- The prize is open to being awarded to a single individual or as a joint prize arising from the specific work of more than one person in the same field of life sciences.
Procedure for Nomination
- The call for nominations for life sciences in 2025 opens on the 8th of May, 2025 and closes on the 4th of July, 2025 (8 weeks).
- Nominations are to be made electronically. The complete nomination package must be emailed to prizes@nas.org.ng Email subject should be “Entry for NAS Gold Medal 2025” Preferred file format is PDF. Paper nominations will not be accepted.
- A nomination is not considered fully submitted until the corresponding nominator receives a confirmation e-mail from NAS; confirmation will be sent within 5 business days of receiving a nomination.
- Nominations must be emailed to prizes@nas.org.ng not later than 12 Midnight 4th of July, 2025.
- A public announcement of a winner(s) will be made in November 2025.
Checklist of Submissions
- Completed and signed nomination form.
- Curriculum vitae of candidate (2 pages maximum) – use prescribed format.
- Copies of 10 most important publications.
- Complete list of candidate’s publications.
- Brief biodata of the corresponding nominator.
For further information, please contact the NAS Secretariat using dajobo@nas.org.ng or +234 808 962 2442
Professor Jonathan Babalola FAS Dr. M. Oladoyin Odubanjo
Chairman, NAS Science Prize Committee Executive Secretary, NAS
Professor Abubakar Sambo FAS
President, NAS