Content
Overview
The NCIBC Travel Grant provides support for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to travel to a professional conference. The goal of the award is to help NCIBC-affiliated GRAs and postdoc researchers in sharing their scholarly and creative work beyond the university through an oral talk (preferred) or a poster presentation.
Award Information
Up to $1,000 will be paid by NCIBC for travel-related expenses. All travel must comply with NU travel policies, and reimbursements will be processed through the sponsoring faculty member’s department.
Eligibility
Applicants must be active graduate students or postdoctoral researchers in a NCIBC-affiliated faculty lab at the time of application and travel.
Application Process
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Applicants must submit:
- A one-page, single-spaced statement with 1-inch margins describing the proposed conference name, location, and dates, expected outcomes resulting from participation at the conference, and any other relevant information.
- Curriculum Vitae
- An abstract of the talk/poster
- Letter of support from an NCIBC faculty mentor
Submission
Email all required materials as a single PDF file to jguo4@unl.edu. Please include “NCIBC Travel Grant Application” in the subject line.
Application Review & Award Notification
The Center Directors and members of the Internal Mentoring and Advisory Committee (IMAC) will review proposals. Applicants will receive a response to their request approximately two weeks from submission date. Priority will be given to applicants who have not received NCIBC Travel Grant funding in the current calendar year.
Acknowledgment of Support
Any publications, presentations, posters, or other scholarly products that result from NCIBC funding or the use of NCIBC resources must acknowledge support from the National Institutes of Health through the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE) grant P20GM113126.
More about NCIBC:
NCIBC is funded by a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence grant (P20GM113126) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to build institutional capacity and infrastructure for basic biomedical research. NCIBC is designed to be a natural mixing chamber to integrate the research activities of chemists, biochemists, engineers, and bioinformaticians to address critical knowledge gaps in our understanding of how cells communicate and to mechanistically define metabolic and regulatory pathways relevant to disease development and progression. NCIBC’s long-term goal is to foster the development of collaborative research teams with broad disciplinary representation to interrogate complex disease pathways, especially by connecting researchers who are developing new molecular probes and analytical and informatics technologies with those unravelling molecular mechanisms of complex diseases.