Awards and Fellowships

IUTOX Congratulates 2010 SOT/AstraZeneca Travel Award Winners

Asongalem Emmanuel Acha, Ph.D. (Cameroon)
Ayse Basak Engin, Ph.D. (Turkey)
Ronnie A. D. Frazer-Williams, Ph.D. (Sierra Leone)
Yan Li, B.S. (China)
Jesus T. Olivero-Verbel, Ph.D. (Colombia)
Suresh V.S. Rana, Ph.D. (India)
Ganna Shayakhmetova, Ph.D. (Ukraine)
Vanessa Steenkamp, Ph.D. (South Africa)
Marcelo J. Wolansky, Ph.D. (Argentina)
Motao Zhu, Ph.D. (China)

AstraZeneca and SOT Fellowships to Attend the 2010 Society of Toxicology, USA Meeting.

IUTOX announces the availability of five (5) fellowship awards sponsored by AstraZeneca and five (5) fellowships awards sponsored by the Society of Toxicology to attend the 2010 Society of Toxicology, USA (SOT) meeting. The meeting will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA on March 7–11, 2010. The awardees may be either junior or senior scientists from a country where toxicology is underrepresented and have an active research program or currently be active in the practice of toxicology. The following criteria will be used to select recipients of the awards:

• A brief statement indicating how the awardee will benefit from the fellowship;
• Curriculum vitae including e-mail address and, if available, a fax number;
• A strong letter of recommendation from the home Society. If the applicant does not have a national toxicology society a strong letter of recommendation from his/her department;
• Demonstration of the ability to meet other expenses to attend the meeting and (the base travel award available is $2,000 USD);
• An abstract for the meeting is optional and will not be included in the printed Final SOT Program unless submitted by the October 3, 2009, SOT abstract deadline.
  
  Award submission begins July 15 and must be received no later than October 9, 2009. Previous AstraZeneca awardees and recipients of 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007, 2008 or 2009 ICT and CTDC fellowships are NOT eligible.

To apply send the application form PDF and the required documents as attachments via e-mail to : iutoxhq@iutox.org

For more information contact:
IUTOX HQ
1821 Michael Faraday Dr., Suite 300
Reston, VA 20190
E-mail: iutoxhq@iutox.org
FAX: (703) 438-3113

Printable version of the AstraZeneca Awards Application and Award Information (pdf)