2025 CMBE Graduate Student Travel Award

Award Description

 The CMBE Graduate Student Travel Award recognizes a graduate student researcher who will attend the 2025 BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Conference to present their outstanding research in the field of cellular and molecular bioengineering.

Award

A certificate and a lightning talk at the 2025 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Awards Symposia.

Eligibility

Applicants must be Graduate Students (PhD not awarded) at the time of submission. Applicants that support and promote a vibrant, diverse, equitable and inclusive research community are especially encouraged to apply.

Award Application Requirements

The deadline to submit an application is September 20th, 2024. The 2025 CMBE Awards will be announced early November 2024. Additional details will be shared in November 2024.

Submissions must contain the title, author names, author affiliations, and an abstract that is no more than one page in length. The inclusion of a figure demonstrating key results in the abstract is encouraged. Additionally, authors should supply a NIH or NSF-style biosketch. This information should be submitted as a single pdf file, with the abstract first. Files should be named with the following format (LastName_FirstName_GraduateTravel.pdf). 

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Scoring Criteria

The scoring criteria include the abstract’s significance, innovation, technical content, and clarity.  Additionally, the investigator and his/her contribution to diversity, inclusion, and equity will also be considered. The scoring rubric can be found here.

Application Deadline: November 1, 2024