The Prize for 2009 is to be awarded for a presentation, lecture or poster concerned with red meat and delivered at the 2009 ICoMST annual meeting to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark in August 16-21, 2009, by any contributor not older than 40 years of age on 31 December 2009.
The judges will put emphasis on the contribution that has the most impact on either knowledge or application for the industry, or the furtherance of meat science and technology. The winner will be selected by a panel of internationally respected meat scientists and industry representatives. There will be only one named winner and the work must be uniquely his/her own effort or he/she must be the authenticated and acknowledged originator, innovator and leader of the work conducted by a group of scientists/technologists.
All contributing participants at ICoMST 2009 who qualify on age and other grounds may - when submitting their short paper - tick off in the field allocated for the IMS Prize to indicate that they wish their contribution to be considered for the IMS Prize. Expressions of interest will be accepted until registration at the congress. Group leaders who wish to be considered must provide evidence at the congress that they initiated and led the work being described.
The Judges’ decision will be announced at the congress in Copenhagen. The winner will be presented with the prize of 5000 US dollars at the World Meat Congress in Buenos Aires in April 2010 where he/she will make a presentation about the work being recognised. Expenses to attend the meeting will be provided by the International Meat Secretariat to a maximum of US$ 1000.
The International Meat Secretariat reserves the right not to award the Prize if there is no suitable submission and alternative approaches may be sought to identify a prizewinner.
Dr David Lister
Secretary
IMS Prize for Meat Science and Technology
Further details are available on the following websites:
http://www.meat-ims.org
http://www.icomst.org/
and at
ims.prize@btinternet.com
