The FAOBMB Young Scientist Award is awarded only in the year in which a Congress is held. For 2018, two awards were given to highly qualified young scientists, one male and one female, from the FAOBMB region. The Young Scientist Awardees received awards and presented their work at the 24th IUBMB-15th FAOBMB Congress, which took place in Seoul, Korea, 4-9 June, 2018.
The next FAOBMB Young Scientist Awards will be presented in 2021 at the 16th FAOBMB Congress to be held in Christchurch, New Zealand during 22-25 November, 2021.
Here are the links to the detailed Guidelines and Application form for the Young Scientist Award for 2021.
The closing date for the present round of applications for the Award in 2021 is 15 May, 2021
[In case of difficulty accessing the files that should download onto your device, please write to info@faobmb.com]
Past Award Winners
| Award | Year | Winner |
| FAOBMB Young Scientist Award (Male) | 2018 | Dr Varodom Charoensawan |
| FAOBMB Young Scientist Award (Female) | 2018 | Dr Tatiana Soares da Costa |
| FAOBMB Young Scientist Award (Male) | 2015 | Dr Victor Anggono |
| FAOBMB Young Scientist Award (Female) | 2015 | Dr Urmi Dhagat |
| FAOBMB Young Scientist Award (Male) | 2012 | Dr Jade Forwood |
| FAOBMB Young Scientist Award (Female) | 2012 | Dr Lai Kuan Goh |
| FAOBMB Young Scientist Award (Male) | 2009 | Dr Travis Beddoe |
| FAOBMB Young Scientist Award (Female) | 2009 | Dr Reiko Nagasaka |
| FAOBMB Young Scientist Award (Male) | 2006 | Dr Masaaki Komatsu |
| FAOBMB Young Scientist Award (Female) | 2006 | Dr Bin Zheng |