Apply Now to Receive Travel Grants for the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) Meeting 2019!

2019 SFN travel recipients

Ahmed Eltokhi, PhD student
Institute of Human Genetics, Heidelberg, Germany

Federica Maltese, PhD Student
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy

Jacqueline Ogier, PhD Student
The Murdoch Childrens
Research Institute
, Melbourne, Australia

Yuliya Voskobiynyk, Graduate Student
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Andrew Cooper, Postdoctoral Associate
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
 
Vivian Chioma, MD/PhD Student
Medical University of South Carolina,South Carolina, USA

Gabriella Contarini, PhD
Istituto italiano di tecnologia, Genova, Italy

Lamia Hachoumi, Post-doctoral research fellow
University of St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

Lea Becker, PhD Student
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France

Foluso Atiba, Student/Postgraduate
University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Ibadan, Nigeria

Previous Recipients

Year Name Position Location
2017 Fernanda Barros- Aragão PhD Candidate Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017 Kevin Beier Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford, CA, USA
2017 Yifei Cai PhD Candidate Shenzhen, China
2017 Nicola Corbett Postdoctoral Fellow Manchester, UK
2017 Erik Dustrude Postdoctoral Fellow Indianapolis, IN, USA
2017 Wendy Gold Research Officer Westmead, Australia
2017 Ajibola Meraiyebu PhD, Senior Lecturer Abuja, Nigeria
2017 Lindsay Rizzardi Postdoctoral Fellow Baltimore, MD, USA
2017 Magdalena Skonieczna PhD, Professor Gilwice, Poland
2017 Dimitri Yousef Yengej PhD Candidate Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 Kate Merritt Graduate Student University of Western Ontario, Canada
2015 Miriam Ben-Hamo Postdoctoral fellow University of Washington, USA
2015 Nuanchan Chutabhakdikul Associate Professor Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Mahidol University, Thailand
2015 Oleksandr Skorokhod Researcher Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine
2015 Patrick Hosford Research Associate University College, London, United Kingdom
2015 Paul Farrow Scientist Ipsen Bioinnovation, United Kingdom
2015 Pia Vidal Postdoctoral fellow Toronto Western Research Institute, UHN, Canada
2015 Shusaku Uchida Associate Professor Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
2012 Shannon Harding Associate Professor Fairfield University, USA
2012 David Moorman Assistant Professor Medical University of South Carolina, USA
2012 Joris Vangeneugden Postdoctoral Fellow Katholieke Universitiet Leuven, Belguim
2012 Luca Caracciolo Postdoctoral Fellow University of California, Los Angeles, USA
2012 Jack Jhamandas Professor University of Alberta, Canada
2012 Peter Butcher Graduate Student University of California, Berkeley, USA
2012 Shankar Ramachandran Graduate Student University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
2012 Ullrich Wagner Postdoctoral Fellow Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
2012 Tiffanie Clinkinbeard Graduate Student University or Kentucky, USA
2012 Takafumi Wataya Postdoctoral Fellow University of Toronto, Canada

Terms and Conditions:

  1. Travel grants will be awarded to support attendance at Society for Neuroscience (SFN) Meeting 2019 held Chicago IL on October 19 -23 2019 and no other event.
  2. All applications must be submitted to Bio-Techne via the online application through September 31, 2019.
  3. Any researcher from an academic or non-profit institution is eligible to apply (technicians, PhD/graduate students, post-docs, principal investigators).
  4. Authorship on an abstract at SFN 2019 is not required.
  5. Applicants must complete the application form in full.
  6. Travel grants will not be awarded to employees of for-profit organizations (i.e. biotech or pharmacological companies).
  7. Travel grant recipients will be determined via a random drawing by Bio-Techne.
  8. The recipients will be contacted by email on or before September 31, 2019 and also announced online.
  9. Travel grants will be paid to the laboratory of the award recipient's principal investigator via the parent university or institution. If paid directly to the PI of the lab, taxes may apply.
  10. Proof of attendance at SFN 2019 will be required prior to travel grant payment.
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