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Travel Awards


ABRF Outstanding Scientist/Technologist  Travel Award, sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific

ABRF 2009 Outstanding Scientist/Technologist Travel Awards will be awarded to ten outstanding scientists or technologists to partly defray the costs of attending the ABRF 2009 meeting.  The travel awards for 2009 will be $600 each for members located in North America and $1,000 for all others.  For more information and details on how to apply, please go to the ABRF Travel Awards web site.  Award recipients will be acknowledged during the ABRF Outstanding Scientist Travel Award Session on Monday, Feb. 9, 2009.  These awards are made possible by sponsorship from Thermo Fisher Scientific.

MARC (Minority Access to Research Careers) Travel Awards

The FASEB Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program, in partnership with the ABRF, is offering minority trainee travel awards for participation in the ABRF 2009 conference.  These awards are provided to help promote the entry of under represented minority scientists*, full-time students, post-baccalaureates and postdoctoral fellows into the mainstream of the basic science community, and to encourage the participation of young investigators and technicians in the ABRF annual meeting.

The FASEB MARC Travel Awards are for U.S.A. citizens or Permanent Residents of the U.S.A. (green card holders) only*.  Successful applicants will be reimbursed up to approximately $1,850 in meeting registration and travel-related expenses.  The travel award recipients will be selected based on submitted scientific abstracts and eligibility to receive MARC funds.  Abstracts will be selected for presentation in poster sessions.

For more information and for application forms, please go to: http://marc.faseb.org/pages/page2a.htm

* Qualified ethnic minority groups that are identified as being underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences include: African Americans, Alaskan Natives, Hispanic Americans, American Indians/Native Americans and Natives of the U.S. Pacific Islands (Guam or Hawai'i).  Individuals on temporary or student visas are not eligible for FASEB MARC Program funding.

There are two types of MARC travel awards:

  • Faculty/Mentors and Students Travel Award: Each award provides funding for one faculty member/mentor and up to two students or post-baccalaureates from a minority institution to participate in one of the selected national meetings or conferences. The faculty/mentor must nominate up to two students and/or post-baccalaureates who are pursuing research careers in a life sciences discipline.  The faculty member does not need to be a minority.
  • Poster/Platform (Oral) Presenter Travel Award: Each award provides funding for one underrepresented minority graduate/ undergraduate student, post-baccalaureate or postdoctoral fellow who is 1st author and has been selected to give a poster presentation at the meeting.

Please contact Nancy Denslow at ndenslow@ufl.edu if you are applying for a MARC Travel Award.  There will be acknowledgement and a program of activities for the MARC Travel Award recipients at the ABRF-2009 meeting.