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ESA Newsletter: April 2004

Endocrine Society of Australia Travel Grants

Requests for travel grants to the Annual Scientific Meeting should be addressed to:

A/Prof Ross Cuneo
Honorary Secretary
Endocrine Society of Australia
145 Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000.

The applications should include 5 copies each of:

• The Application Form (PDF file, 31KB)*, located at http://www.endocrinesociety.org.au/travelgrant_form2004.pdf
  *You may need to download & install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print this file
• submitted abstracts
• a brief CV.

Closing Date: 9th May 2004

Eligibility:

1. Only members of the society may be awarded travel grants. (Membership must be ratified by Council.)
2. The categories of applicant in order of decreasing priority for consideration are:
   • Full time student (postgraduate) presenting an abstract
   • Research assistant/research officer (NH&MRC scale) presenting abstract
   • Full time student (postgraduate)
   • RA/RO.
3. The supervisor should certify the category and advise whether any other specific support is available from the institution, i.e. travelling scholarship/grant.
4. Generally ineligible for a travel grant are:
   • Members in higher positions than RO
   • Members who are physicians or PhDs more than 7 years post-doctorate
   • Members resident in a country other than Australia.

See also: details in Awards and Grants

ESA International Travel Awards

The ESA has great pleasure in announcing that Dr Gordon Howarth and Dr Sophie Chan were recipients of ESA International Travel Awards. Gordon is a Senior Scientist at the Child Health Research Institute in Adelaide and will be presenting some of his work on growth factors in the bowel at the Digestive Disease Week (DDW) meeting in New Orleans in mid May. He will also be meeting with representatives of a New Hampshire biotechnology company which is developing new tests to monitor intestinal function. Sophie is at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney and will be attending the International Congress of Immunology (ICE) meeting in Lisbon, to present work on IGFBP-3 regulation of adipocyte differentiation.

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