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