2023-2024 Rutgers Brain Health Institute Trainee Travel Awards
The Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI) is pleased to announce the Spring 2024 trainee travel award for Rutgers neuroscience PhD, MD/PhD students, and post-docs. BHI will provide $500 awards to help offset the cost of attending a national or international conference that was held during the current fiscal year (i.e., by June 30, 2024). For the Spring cycle, there will be awards in each of the four BHI focus areas- Neurodegeneration and Injury, Neurodevelopment, Motivational and Affective Neuroscience, and Cognitive and Sensory Neuroscience. Each of the four Focus Area Working Groups (FAWGs) will select the awardees. In addition, the Junior Faculty Working Group (JFWG) will select candidates for travel awards set aside exclusively for graduate students or post-docs whose primary mentors are junior faculty (defined as faculty holding a tenure-track Assistant Professor title).
To apply for the awards, please fill out the application form, attach the conference abstract to be presented (250 words maximum), your recent CV, and a single-page letter of support from lab PI. Combine all documents into ONE single PDF.
Submit all materials by March 15, 2024, to bhi@bhi.rutgers.edu .
Trainee Travel Awardees must–
- Acknowledge the Rutgers Brain Health Institute on the poster or in the slide presentation (submit a picture of the Acknowledgement section of the conference poster or presentation slide).
- Present the poster at the Annual Rutgers BHI symposium held during the Fall semester.
- Submit copies of the travel and registration receipts.
** Trainees in the labs of the Chairs and Vice-Chairs of the BHI Working Groups are not eligible for these travel award competitions as they have already been allotted separate trainee travel awards from BHI.
Neurodegeneration & Injury FAWG: Chair- Dr. Detlev Boison; Vice Chair- Dr. Steve Levison
Neurodevelopment FAWG: Chair- Dr. Wayne Fisher; Vice Chair- Dr. Chiara Manzini
Motivational & Affective Neuroscience FAWG: Chair- Dr. Danielle Dick; Vice Chair- Dr. Zhiping Pang
Cognitive & Sensory Neuroscience FAWG: Chair- Dr. David Zald; Vice Chair- Dr. Robin Davis
Junior Faculty Working Group (JFWG): Chair- Dr. Victoria Abraira; Vice Chair- Dr. Miriam Bocarsly
Congratulations to the winners of the 2023-2024 Rutgers Brain Health Institute Trainee Travel Awards by the Cognitive and Sensory Neuroscience Focus Area Working Group for travel to the 2024 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms. On behalf of Chair Dr. David Zald, Vice Chair Dr. Robin L. Davis, and the members of the Cognitive and Sensory Neuroscience Working Group, BHI will award them $500 to help offset travel costs. This opportunity aims to facilitate the sharing of research with a broader audience and foster collaborations with scientists in their field.