FEBS Advanced Lecture Course

Matrix Pathobiology, Signaling and Molecular Targets

May 21-26, 2007, Patras, Greece

Fellowships


FEBS Youth Travel Fellowship (YTF)

A number of FEBS Youth Travel Funds (YTF) grants for PhD students and young researchers will be available covering registration fees and travel. Whereas the registration fee covering living expenses will send directly to the course organizers, the travel award is transferred to YTF recipients, unless for foreign exchange reasons he/she requests it to be sent also to course organizers.
Deadline for FEBS YTF application: January 29, 2007 (extended until February 5, 2007)

Conditions for YTF Grants

To be eligible for a YTF grant, individuals should apply with an abstract, a one page curriculum vitae and one letter of recommendation. The candidates should include with the application their full address, phone and fax numbers and their e-mail address. All applications for YTF grants must be made via the application/registration form. Verification of a FEBS constituent society membership as well as a letter of recommendation must be sent by e-mail attachment to the FEBS-MPST2007 secretariat.

Applicants should:

  1.  be registered as student at an institution of higher learning in a country where there is a FEBS Constituent Society, or be within five years of having completed a PhD thesis;
  2. be a member of a FEBS Constituent Society;
  3. not have received a grant from the Youth Travel Fund to attend an Advanced Course in the current year (2007);
  4. not have obtained a grant to attend the Young Scientists Forum in the current year.

Young Investigator Awards

All abstracts with graduate students or postdoctoral fellows as first authors that not received a YTF are subject to scientific evaluation by selected members. The best 5 abstracts will receive the "FEBS-MPST2007 Young Investigator Award" at the end of the course. This will be financed with the full registration fee. To be eligible for this award, individuals should also apply with an abstract, a curriculum vitae (one page) and one letter of recommendation. The candidates should include with the application their full address, phone and fax numbers and their e-mail address.
The young investigator awards are sponsored by Sigma-Aldrich and Chemilab.
Deadline for Young Investigator Awards application: February 12, 2007

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