Travel Award Application

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

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 JCRC Faculty Member, 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 (faculty member must apply through the faculty travel application). 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. JCRC Faculty mentor must submit this application online.
3. Submit ONE application for a group of postdocs, grad or/and undergrad students.
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 biosketches (NIH format, not more than 5 pages) as pdf files and named the following: 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 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.