The best scoring applicant for the SDE Fellowship shall be known as the Adele Lewis Grant fellowship winner, the second-best scoring applicant shall be known as the Hartley fellowship winner, and all other winners shall be known as SDE fellowship winners. The travel award is to be known as the Eli Lilly Travel Award. Awards will be announced on or before July 1 of each year. Qualifications of Candidate 1. Awards will be made to women holding a degree from a recognized institution of higher learning, of outstanding ability and promise in research, who are performing research at any institution in the U.S. or abroad.
Postdoctoral fellows can expect to be evaluated more rigorously than student applicants.
Awards will be made irrespective of race, religion, nationality, creed, national origin, or age. For the Vessa Notchev Fellowships, awards are for research in the same areas as for SDE Fellowships. For the Eloise Gerry Fellowships, awards are for research in the biological or chemical sciences only. For the Eli Lilly Travel Award, awards are available to women graduate students or post doctoral fellows in disciplines related to the pharmaceutical sciences, for travel within the continental United States to present work at a scientific meeting. Applicants may only apply for one award in any given year.