2025 Mary Beth Maddox Award and Lectureship Nominations Open August 1
Nominations for the 2025 Mary Beth Maddox Award and Lectureship will open August 1 through September 30, 2024. The award recognizes women scientists in Texas bringing new ideas and innovations to the fight against cancer.
The recipient will be recognized with a $5,000 honorarium and award and present their research at the TAMEST 2025 Annual Conference: Transformational Breakthroughs, February 4–6, 2025, at the Westin Irving Las Colinas in Irving, Texas. The award and lecture series was created in memory and honor of former TAMEST Executive Director Mary Beth Maddox who passed away in 2018 after a valiant battle with pancreatic cancer.
The nominee must have spent the last two years performing cancer research in Texas and be within 10 years of her first faculty appointment or 15 years from her first full-time industry-affiliated position.
In addition to being honored at the conference, the recipient will promote their work and discoveries across the state at established lecture and seminar series at TAMEST member institutions with NIH National Cancer Institute Designated Cancer Centers:
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine
- John H. Blaffer Lecture Series, MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Grand Rounds, UT Health San Antonio
- Excellence in Immunology Seminar Series, UT Southwestern Medical Center (in partnership with Simmons Cancer Center)
The award covers the recipient’s travel and lodging for the lectures and includes organized visits and networking at the NCI Cancer Centers. An $1,000 stipend is also provided to the recipient to provide childcare while traveling for the lecture series.
Qualified nominators include TAMEST Members, university presidents, chancellors, deans, provosts, vice presidents for research, and past Mary Beth Maddox, Edith and Peter O’Donnell Awards and Hill Prizes recipients. Multiple nominations from a single institution or organization are allowed.
Visit tamest.org/mary-beth-maddox-award for more information on the nomination process and award eligibility.
