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ASN Young Latin American Scholars Travel Award
The American Society for Neurochemistry is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for young neuroscientists from Latin American countries. These awards will provide $2,000 in travel expenses to attend the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Neurochemistry being held March 1-5, 2008, in San Antonio, Texas. The award winner will also visit, for a period not shorter than one additional week, an established neuroscience laboratory in North America. The ASN hopes that these awards will foster mentoring relationships, to teach young scientists new techniques, and to share and encourage new ideas and approaches to neurochemical problems.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
- Awards are restricted to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty no more than 35 years of age at the time of application.
- Applicants must be first (presenting) author of a submitted abstract.
- Applicants may not have received a YLA Award from ASN previously.
- No more than two applicants from any laboratory may apply.
TO APPLY:
Step One: Please fill out the online application form
Step Two: Please prepare, as a single PDF document, the following items:
- A brief cover letter containing a statement of your career goals, and the purpose of your visit to a particular neuroscience laboratory in North America.
- A letter of recommendation from a senior scientist who is familiar with the applicant’s research.
- A two page NIH format curriculum vitae – (link to example)
- Letter from Host Laboratory accepting the visit of the applicant
Step Three: Email the PDF file to Juana Pasquini, PhD, Chairperson, ASN YLA Committee at ASNYLA@asneurochem.org
Please do not email more than one application in each email.
If there are any questions about the application process, please email them to the above address.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION MATERIALS IS OCTOBER 30th, 2007
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