2010 HDL Workshop Travel Awards for Young Investigators

The 2010 IAS Workshop on HDL encourages participation in the meeting by trainees at the graduate student and postdoctoral fellowship level to present their research on HDL in oral or poster format, and to interact with more senior investigators and industry representatives.  Approximately 20 awards of $1000 CDN each will be available. 

Criteria

Applicant must:

• Be registered to attend the meeting. 
• Be working in any area of research concerned with high density lipoproteins. 

• Be in training as an undergraduate or predoctoral student, or a fellow who has completed training within the last five years.  

• Be accepted for oral or poster presentation at the 2010 IAS Workshop on HDL. 

• Applicants may apply for a travel award multiple times with different abstracts, as long as the applicant is the presenting author on each abstract. However, an applicant is eligible to receive only one travel award, even if multiple abstracts are accepted. 

• Only one candidate per supervisor will be given an award. 

• The applicant’s supervisor must confirm the applicant’s trainee status and their role in the submitted work.   

• There are no citizenship requirements.

Evaluation Criteria

All abstracts submitted for this award will be evaluated for scientific merit by a review committee. Notification of the competition results will be made in mid April 2010.

How to Apply

The applicant must:

1. Submit an original abstract to the 2010 IAS Workshop on HDL. The abstract must be in accordance with the rules and regulations for submitting abstracts and must have been submitted by the abstract submission deadline, April 5, 2010.

2. Indicate that the abstract is for the Travel Award on the Online Abstract Submission Form. 

3. Email the following to Michelle Gock at mgock@venuewest.com by the March 30 deadline:

   • A letter from the supervisor confirming the applicant’s trainee status and role of the trainee in the submitted work.

   • A complete curriculum vitae, including bibliography, and clear documentation demonstrating that the applicant is within the first five years of an initial faculty appointment at the time of the award application date.

If you have already submitted an abstract to the 2010 IAS Workshop on HDL, sign in with your Access Key before April 5 and use the ‘edit’ feature to update your abstract submission by answering the new question that it is for a travel award.  Then email the required documentation to Michelle Gock.

Application Deadline

Applications must be submitted by April 5, 2010.