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The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists is a new annual award set up jointly by Science/AAAS and SciLifeLab in order to provide extra encouragement to young scientists as they begin their scientific careers. Applicants submit a 1000-word essay, judged by an independent editorial team on the quality of research and the applicants’ ability to articulate how their work would contribute to the scientific field.

We are delighted to be able to congratulate F1000Prime Faculty Member Gabriel Victora on receiving the first runner-up prize of US$5,000. Dr Victora heads the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is the Whitehead Fellow.

Victora’s work combines mouse genetics with intravital microscopy to study the development of high-affinity antibodies in the germinal center. He is also a recipient of the 2011 Weintraub Award for Graduate Research, the 2012 March of Dimes Foundation Basil O’Connor Scholar Award, and the 2012 National Institutes of Health director’s Early Independence Award.

His essay is published online in Science. Read the other winning entries here.