Travel Grants

Deadline: July 12, 2013

July 2013 Application

Announcement of March 2013 Travel Fellowship Awards Recipients

Katten Muchin Rosenman Travel Scholarship Program
The Katten Muchin Rosenman Travel Scholarship Program allows doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows to present the results of their basic cancer research.

Cancer Prevention and Control Travel Scholarship Program
The Cancer Prevention Travel Scholarship Program allows doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows to present the results of their laboratory, clinical, population or behavioral research with implications for cancer prevention.

About the Travel Programs

Each of these travel programs provide $750 to recipients to help defray the cost of travel and registration fees to a scientific meeting where the awardees will present their research. Recipients from each of the programs are required to present their work at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University's Annual Scientific Poster Session at the end of the academic year. The programs have the same deadlines, application and selection process. Reviewed by appropriate Faculty Committees, the awards are competitive with three application cycles each academic year. No awards will be given for past meetings. Doctoral students or postdoctoral fellows may receive only one travel award per academic year and a maximum of two awards from any program during the applicant's academic career at Northwestern University.

Note: For conferences that will be held in December, January, February and March, applicants should apply in November. For conferences that will be held in April, May, June and July, applicants should apply in March. Conferences that will be held in August, September, October and November should apply in July.

The Application Process:

All required information and sections of the application must be assembled into a single PDF file to be valid. Please submit only one original abstract. If there is no formal meeting abstract form, please indicate that on the submitted application. Previously unaccepted abstracts may only be resubmitted if applying to attend a different scientific meeting.

All applications will be evaluated on the following criteria:

Applications will be evaluated on if the presentations are oral or a poster
Complete work or work submitted for publications or just published vs. preliminary data
The strength of the Principle Investigator's letter of recommendation for applicant; Include the letter of recommendation at the time that application is submitted or it will not be accepted for consideration. NO EXCEPTIONS.
If you have received a travel scholarship during the last academic year, your application will not be considered. However, if you received a Katten Muchin Rosenman travel scholarship but applying for a Center for Genetic Medicine travel scholarship, you will be eligible.
No more than two applications per lab each cycle will be accepted for consideration. If there are multiple applications from the same laboratory, the Principle Investigator should make a decision which two applications should be submitted for a travel scholarship. .
A concise description of the cancer or genetics relevance (less than one page) of the research. If applying for more than one award, description of the relevance to both cancer and genetics is required.
Written confirmation of acceptance to the scientific meeting or an explanation of when that confirmation is forthcoming, and whether you will present a poster or an oral presentation.
A copy of your CV.
If you have recent results not included in the abstract, send them to the Faculty Review Committee as soon as possible. This information will make it easier for them to evaluate the maturity of the work.
No application will be accepted without all of the required information at the time of submission. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Instructions:

Download the program's application form
Fill out the application completely and assemble all required information. Please indicate on the form if your abstract has not yet been confirmed.
Applications will only be accepted if they are in the correct PDF file.
Without exception, applications received after 5:00 p.m. on July 12, 2013 will not be reviewed.
All applications must be sent to Denise Marshall at d-marshall4@northwestern.edu. You will receive a confirmation within two days of your application submission. If you DO NOT receive a confirmation, contact Denise Marshall immediately at 312.695.1392.

The Review Process:

The Faculty Review Committees will base their decisions on the quality of the science, the maturity of the work and its importance to the field of cancer or genetics research.
The Review Committee will send their final decisions to each applicant by letter.
Katten Muchin Rosenman Travel Scholarship and Cancer Prevention and Control Travel Scholarship winners must include the following statement on printed materials: This work is supported in part by a Travel Scholarship from the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University.
CGM Travel Fellowship winners must include the following statement on printed materials: This work is supported in part by a Travel Fellowship Award from the Center for Genetic Medicine of Northwestern University.

Contacts:

Katten Muchin Rosenman Travel Scholarship
Debu Chakravarti, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
312.503.1641 or debu@northwestern.edu.

Center for Genetic Medicine Travel Fellowship
Peter Kopp, MD, Director ad interim, Center for Genetic Medicine
312.503.3209 or p-kopp@northwestern.edu.

Michelle Mohney, Center for Genetic Medicine
312.503.5602 or michelle.mohney@northwestern.edu.

Cancer Prevention Travel Scholarship
Raymond Bergan, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology,
312.908.1333 or r-bergan@northwestern.edu.