Principal Investigator or Principal Medical Educator Prize 2026 |
Deadline for nominations 31st March 2026
Who is eligible?
Principal Investigators, Principal Medical Educators or Academic Supervisors
A Principal Investigator (PI) is anyone who holds research grant funding and has staff working on their projects. They might have one member of their research team or twenty, but the qualifying condition is that they have grant money and have staff working on the grant, including you.
A Principal Medical Educator (PME) is anyone who holds a leading role in the development and delivery of primary care education, and who supervises and supports one or more team members in the running of their programme or course.
An Academic Supervisor (AS) is anyone with formal responsibility for supervising, mentoring or supporting academic trainees or early career researchers, and who plays a significant role in their academic development, wellbeing and progression.
How do I nominate my PI, PME or AS?
Provide a statement of 200 words or less outlining why your PI/PME/AS should be “PI/PME/AS of the year” in box 5 below. Let us know what it is about them that has particularly impressed you and – if possible – any particular examples of what they have done to support you or your colleagues. Entries may be from an individual or a team. Please submit only one statement per PI, PME or AS. We won’t tell the PI/PME/AS who nominated them.