2024 Scientific Meeting - Travel Awards: OPEN November 20/23

Investigator Travel Award:

CSI offers up to three New Investigator Travel awards up to $1,500 each for a new Investigator to attend the next CSI Conference. To be eligible for an award, new investigators must be a current CSI member and be within 6 years of their first faculty appointment. Awards shall not be given to the same individuals in consecutive years. Please send a maximum 3 page CV which includes a list of the past 5 years publications, plus an abstract you or your trainees will be presenting at the meeting.
Award decisions are based on merit. Results of the travel award competition will be announced before the early CSI meeting registration deadline.

CSI Meeting Travel Awards for Trainees:

Student Travel Award for the CSI meeting
Postdoctoral Travel Award for the CSI meeting

CSI Student, PDF and Investigator Members selected for Travel Awards will be posted by February 9, 2024.

Student Travel Award

Travel awards will be awarded to help graduate students attend the 2024 CSI Meeting. There will be a total of five bursaries of up to a maximum of $1,000 each and five bursaries of up to a maximum of $500 each to cover expenses upon submission of appropriate receipts.

The following conditions apply:

A maximum of one travel award will be given per laboratory
Did not receive a travel award for the CSI 2023 meeting
Bursaries will be awarded on the basis of merit and not on the perceived financial need of the applicant
Ensure that you are a member of CSI and have paid your dues for 2024. For more senior students there will be an expectation of ongoing membership for at least two consecutive years
For students at Canadian Institutions to be eligible for an award, their supervisor must also have been a member of the CSI for at least 2023 and 2024. Students training outside Canada may apply independently of the CSI membership for their supervisor.

Your online application will require the following:

completed online application information
Provide a CV (max 2pgs) which should include: publications, honours & awards and other activities
Abstract - format as follows (see sample):
- Content within 300 words excluding names & affiliations
- Times or Times New Roman, 12pt, 2cm margins
Upload 2-page CV and abstract as one PDF file with online application and the PDF filename MUST be your LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME.pdf

Please note that the travel award deadline is before the abstract submission deadline. The abstracts entered into the award competition may be revised to accommodate new data etc. before their final submission to the meeting. Trainees will need to submit FINAL abstracts separately for the meeting by March 8, 2024 through your online meeting registration. Applicants must present a poster at the meeting in order to qualify for travel award funding.

The results of the competition will be announced on this website before February 9, 2024.

PDF Travel Award:

Five travel awards will be awarded to help postdoctoral fellows attend the 2024 CSI Meeting. Each award will cover expenses up to a maximum of $1,000 upon submission of appropriate receipts.

The following conditions apply:

A maximum of one travel award will be given per laboratory
Did not receive a travel award for the CSI 2023 meeting
Ensure that you are a member of CSI and have paid your dues for 2024. For more senior Postdocs there is an expectation of ongoing membership for at least two consecutive years
Bursaries will be awarded on the basis of merit and not on the perceived financial need of the applicant
For postdocs at Canadian Institutions to be eligible for an award, their supervisor must also have been a member of the CSI for at least 2023 and 2024. Postdocs training outside Canada may apply independently of the CSI membership for their supervisor.