Travel Award Application

These competitive awards support travel to professional meetings or workshops by undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of JCRC faculty members or JCRC faculty members themselves. NO MORE than 2 students per lab and $500 per student! The faculty could also receive a travel award.

Applicants are expected to present a cancer- related poster or short talk meaning cancer terms should be in the abstract! Other criteria for this award include: positive impact on the applicant’s training, potential impact on laboratory recognition, possibility of establishment or support of collaborative efforts, evidence of frugality, and availability of matching funds.

All application must be submitted by the mentor, NOT the student or postdoc. Requests for multiple applicants from the same laboratory attending the same meeting will be accepted up to 2 students and 1 faculty member per lab. The first student application should be filled out completely. The second student application may stop at funding requested if  you wish.  This is a very detailed application, which must be completed thoroughly. Please prepare it with attention to detail and in the spirit that limited funds must benefit as many people as possible. The biannual application deadlines are October 1 and March 1.  Applicants should consult the university's guidelines on reimbursable travel expenses. 

Submission of Application

1. The JCRC total travel budget is about $2000/year. Thus we only fund $500/person and up to 2 people per lab.
2. Faculty mentor must submit this application online.
3. Submit ONE application for a group of postdocs, grad or/and undergrad students or faculty member themselves.
4. Use university travel guidelines for all costs.
5. Preference will be given to applications that demonstrate attention to lowest possible cost options for expenses and research presentations with the most cancer relevance.
6. Upload postdoc's, grad or undergrad student's or faculty's biosketches ( NIH format, not more than 5 pages) as pdf files and name the follows: mentor last name student last name. Include submitted abstract as an additional page to the biosketch. 
7. The personal statement should include the cancer relevance of the  post-doc's or student's or faculty's research .
8. Publications from the last 3 years which acknowledge funding from the Johnson Cancer Research Center.  Please provide the number total publications in the last 3 years.