Fall 2023 Rutgers Brain Health Institute Trainee Travel Awards
The Fall 2023 Application is now open. Please submit applications by Sept 1, 2023.
The Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI) is pleased to announce the Fall 2023 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 will be held during the current fiscal year (i.e., by June 30, 2024). For the Fall cycle, there will be 4 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 one travel award 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 word maximum), your recent CV, and a single page letter of support from lab PI. Submit all materials as a SINGLE PDF file by September 1, 2023 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.