Indian society of cell biology

2. Eligibility for Nomination : The person to be nominated need not be a member of the Society when nominated but may be requested to become a member in due course of time. The person to be nominated will ordinarily be an Indian citizen at the time of nomination/selection and should be an eminent scientist who would have made outstanding original contributions to Cell Biology or contributed substantially to growth of the subject in India.

Mode of Selection and Recommendation

After receipt of nominations, copies of the bio-data etc. will be forwarded by the Secretary to all members of the Selection Committee. The Committee will be free to suggest or consider any other name(s) not formally proposed. However, all the particulars of the person nominated by a member of the Committee should be placed on record and will be included in the minutes of the meeting of the Selection Committee. The members may communicate with each other and with the Secretary and express their opinion. The entire proceedings of the Committee will be treated as strictly confidential.

As far as possible, the Committee should arrive at a unanimous recommendation. In case of disagreement, the decision will be arrived at by secret ballot. The Executive Committee will ordinarily endorse the recommendations of the Selection Committee. However, in exceptional circumstances the recommendations of the Selection Committee may be altered only by an unanimous vote by the Executive Committee, provided there is full quorum.

The Executive Committee will treat the recommendations of the Selection Committee as confidential. The President or in his absence the senior Vice-President or in his absence the elected Chairman of the Selection Committee is authorized to communicate with the person and obtain his/her consent. After obtaining consent of the speaker, the President will entrust the Secretary to proceed with arrangements for holding the lecture.

The selected speaker is required to deliver the lecture in the appointed year. If on account of genuine reasons, the lecturer is unable to deliver the lecture in the particular year, the executive committee may allow him to deliver the lecture in the following year, without affecting plans for subsequent years. The lecturer will provide five copies of the summary (not exceeding 2500 words) of his lecture. The Society will reserve the right to publish it in any form.

A person will be selected as a lecturer only once for a given lecture series. No nominations shall be carried over to next year.