Springer Scholarships for the 6th ICCNS Meeting

About the Scholarships

Springer and the International CCN Society are happy to announce that three Scholarships will be given to students/post doctoral fellows for presenting their work at the 6th International workshop on the CCN family of genes to be held in Newcastle (Northern Ireland) Oct 20-24, 2010.

The total amount provided by Springer for these scholarships is 1500 Euros (presently 2100 USD).

The scholarships will be paid directly to the ICCNS society to cover the meeting registration fees of the three selected individuals.

Travel expenses are not covered by the scholarships.

Guidelines for Application

Each applicant must submit an abstract of the work to be presented at the meeting (see format for abstract presentation that will be posted on the ICCNS website, under 2010 meeting information). The abstract should be sent electronically to the President of the ICCNS at ccnsociety@yahoo.com. A letter of support from a mentor (who must be a member of the ICCNS) sponsoring the abstract must be sent with the abstract.

ICCNS members can sponsor more than one abstract.

In the case of multiple applications from by the same laboratory, only one applicant can be selected to obtain an award.

Deadline for application: June 1st, 2010.

Selection of Recipients

Selection of the abstracts will be performed on the basis of originality and novelty.

All nominations will be critically reviewed abstracts by the Scientific Committee of the ICCNS. The Chair of the Scientific Committee will provide the President of the ICCNS with a list of 5 names ranked in order (from top to bottom). Based on the recommendations of the Scientific Committee, recipients will be nominated by the President of the ICCNS.

The recipients will be notified directly by email no later than august 1st, 2010. A copy of the decision will be sent to the Director of the laboratory.

Acceptance of the Scholarship should be made with the understanding that the recipient will be attending the 5th International Workshop on the CCN family of Genes for the whole meeting time (20-24 october) and that his/her work will be submitted for inclusion in the Meeting proceedings and/or for publication in the Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling.