Description: This award will include a cash prize and is presented to a student or new investigator in recognition of scholarship in teratology and service to the Teratology Society. The Marie W. Taubeneck Fund established in memory of Dr. Taubeneck supports this award.

Eligibility requirements: This award is open to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and is based on the following criteria:

• Level of involvement in the in the Teratology Society
• Attendance at a minimum of one other Teratology Society meeting
• Level of enthusiasm for developmental and reproductive toxicology
• Courage to pursue new methods and areas of research
• Leadership among and mentoring of fellow students

Judging process: Mentors are polled for their choices and students vote on their choice at the meeting. The final decision is made by the Student Affairs Committee.

Past recipients

2008
Eugene Galdones, McGill University

2007
Elizabeth Ann Irvin, University of Georgia

2006
Robert G. Ellis-Hutchings, University of California At Davis

2005
Elizabeth Gribble, University of Washington

2004
Rayetta Grasty, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2003
Gautam S. Ghatnekar, North Carolina State University

2002
Antonio F. Machado, University of California, Los Angeles

2001
Robert Vinson, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2000
Kim Brannen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1999
P. Lamont Bryant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill