Dear Colleague Letter: NSF-Swiss NSF Lead Agency Opportunity
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Source: NSF Program Announcements and Information - January 28, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: funding
When a Country is Open, Do They Have Strong Science Too?
As no scientist is an island, the overall scientific enterprise grows stronger when people work together. But, an interesting question emerges from this concept for us to explore: how can we quantify the effect of collaboration on productivity and impact on science?
In the October 5 issue of Nature, Caroline Wagner, Ph.D. of the Ohio State University and Koen Jonker’s, Ph.D. of the European Commission Joint Research Center
published an interesting analysis of the association of a country’s “openness” and its scientific productivity. The authors assembled data from the Scopus database—a wealth of information on ci...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - December 11, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike bibliometrics publications Source Type: funding
Call for Applications: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics SIB Awards 2015
Closing date for entries: 31 January 2015 Awards presentation: 8-10 June 2015 at the [BC]2 Conference in Basel The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is happy to announce the SIB Awards 2015, which consist of three categories: SIB International Young Bioinformatician Award 2015 This award recognizes the excellent and promising young career of a scientist, or a project he/she has carried out, or a paper he/she has published in the field of bioinformatics or computational biology. The award carries a cash prize of CHF 10,000, an award certificate and travel expenses for the laureate to attend the ...
Source: ScanGrants feed - November 14, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Source Type: funding
Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases/International Society for Infectious Diseases Fellowships
The objectives of the Fellowship Program are: • to train promising young physicians and scientists from developing and middle income countries for clinical and research positions in infectious diseases • to foster partnerships between Fellows and infectious disease leaders in Switzerland • to increase scientific research capacity in low income/high disease burden countries Opportunities for training and research in a variety of areas ranging from basic studies of the mechanism of disease to studies in public health, epidemiology, diagnostics, therapeutics or vaccine development, are available...
Source: ScanGrants feed - November 11, 2013 Category: Research Authors: Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases/International Society for Infectious Diseases Source Type: funding
Call for Applications: Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Science Henry E. Sigerist Prize
The Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Science invites applications for the Henry E. Sigerist Prize for the promotion of young scholars in the history of medicine and science. Deadline for application: March 31 2013 The prize was founded in 1967 by Mr. and Mrs. Guggenheim-Schnurr from Basel in order to award outstanding young scholars in the field of history of medicine and science. It is conferred by a jury on behalf of the Swiss Society of the History of Medicine and Sciences. Applicants should submit studies completed within the last two years, i.e. articles published in journals diss...
Source: ScanGrants feed - February 21, 2013 Category: Research Authors: Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Science Source Type: funding
