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 such as registration fees, economy class airfare, lodging, per diem per NU travel policy, etc. NCIBC Administrative Core will coordinate payment to the awardee.
Eligibility:
Must be a graduate student or postdoctoral researcher in a NCIBC-affiliated faculty lab.
Application Process:
- Submit a statement (one-page single-spaced with 1-inch margins) describing the proposed conference, expected outcomes resulting from participation at the conference, and any other supporting information.
- Curriculum Vitae
- An abstract of the talk/poster
- Letter of support from an NCIBC faculty mentor
Submission & Deadline:
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Email all required materialsin a single PDF file to jguo4@unl.edu.
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.
Award Limit:
Priority will be given to applicants who have not received NCIBC Travel Grant funding in the current calendar year.
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. Please cite the grant (P20GM113126) if NCIBC funding or other NCIBC resources contribute to your publications.