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HELP FUTURE SCIENTISTS AND
PROMOTE COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS: THE 2014 ISCB
STUDENT TRAVEL FELLOWSHP CAMPAIGN
By Stacy Slagor, ISCB
Director of Corporate Relations and Development
Join ISCB in giving students access to the
principal role models within the fields and help us influence the
paths of scientific careers. By supporting travel for our future
researchers -- students and postdoctoral fellows -- you support the future
of computational biology and bioinformatics.
Each year ISCB
receives over 300 travel fellowship requests. With currently
available funds, we can only support approximately 70% of these
requests by providing partial funding to each recipient. Government
funding opportunities continue to decline, so ISCB reaches out to
YOU to help this important initiative. Donating to the travel
fellowship fund will help us to support even more students with
higher travel awards.
David Kuo, a computational biology
doctoral student at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, shares
his experience as a travel fellowship awardee, "I was privileged to
be awarded a Travel Fellowship for ISMB/EECB 2013 this past summer
to attend the conference in Berlin. I was especially grateful for
the potential that the fellowship committee sees in its young
scientists and was humbled to be awarded the travel fellowship."
"This would be my first major scientific conference and I was
astounded by the sheer number of scientists presenting interesting
work. It was a great opportunity for me to present my poster at an
international conference attended by world-class scientists and
build new networks from this experience. The quality of the keynotes
was both inspirational and educational, particularly in seeing the
career trajectory that I could potentially follow in the field. It
is a conference that I will not soon forget and I look back upon it
fondly. Without the support of the travel fellowship, I may not have
been able to attend so I sincerely appreciate the efforts from the
ISCB to provide support for young trainees."
Student travel
fellowships provide important opportunities for young scientists.
Your contribution to ISCB at any level will help us not only to
achieve our goals of assisting students but also exceed them. We
continue to do all we can but there isstill more to do -- YOU can
make a difference in the future of our science by supporting
tomorrow's researcher and ISCB.
To donate online:
www.iscb.org/donation/donation.php
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