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Albany Medical Center seeking nominations The Albany Medical Center seeks nominations for its annual Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. The $500,000 prize, which is given to a distinguished physician or scientist each year, is the largest prize of its kind in the United States and the second largest in the world, after the Nobel Prize.  The prize provides worldwide recognition to a physician, biomedical scientist, or group of physicians or scientists who have made extraordinary and ongoing leadership contributions to improving patient and health care. Nominees may also have successfully pursued innovative biomedical research with demonstrated translational benefits applied to improved patient care. Eligible nominees are practitioners and scientists whose accomplishments and outcomes have been demonstrated in the past quarter century, with preference to accomplishments in the past decade. The recipient receives full discretionary use of the prize, although the prize committee hopes that a portion of the award advances future accomplishments in the winner’s field of expertise.  The prize is both a public award and an important resource for sustaining excellence. The deadline for nominations is Jan. 15. A panel of distinguished physicians and scientists reviews each nomination, which must include two additional letters of support. The Albany Medical Center does not accept self-nominations. For more information about the prize, the nomination process, and the timetable, visit the Albany Medical Center’s Web  site, http://www.amc.edu.  For questions or if you would like to make a nomination, contact David R. Buran, secretary of the prize selection committee, by calling (518) 262-8043 or by send an e-mail to Buran at burand@mail.amc.edu.     Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to petersnd@musc.edu or catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778.