Burroughs Wellcome Fund Collaborative Research Travel Grant Program

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Collaborative Research Travel Grant Program Application Deadline: Feb 3, 2014 by 4:00pm EST Accepting electronic applications only. Deadlines are firm. The Collaborative Research Travel Grant (CRTG) program provides up to $15,000 in support for researchers from degree-granting institutions to travel either domestically or internationally to a laboratory to acquire a new research technique or to facilitate a collaboration. To capitalize on what appears to be an opportunity to provide relatively unrestricted travel funds to academic scientists and trainees and to provide a stimulus for those working or contemplating working at the interface of science, this program provides travel grants that can be used both internationally and domestically to acquire new research techniques, and to promote collaborations. Applicant Requirements: Postdoctoral fellows or faculty at degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada are eligible to apply. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, statistics, or engineering at the time of application; and interested in investigating research opportunities in the biological sciences.  Biologists holding a doctorate degree at the time of application who are interested in working with physical scientists, mathematicians, engineers, chemists, statisticians, or computer scientists to incorporate their ideas and approaches to answering biological questions are...
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