Win a $1000 travel award!  Applications accepted at http://felcom.od.nih.gov/subCommittee/fare.aspx  from March 14 - April 14, 2008. 

The fifteenth annual Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE) competition will again provide recognition for outstanding scientific research performed by intramural postdoctoral fellows.  FARE 2009 winners will each receive a $1,000 travel award to use for attending and presenting their work at a scientific meeting. Twenty five percent of the fellows who apply will win an award.

FARE applicants must submit an abstract of their research, which will be evaluated anonymously on scientific merit, originality, experimental design and overall quality/presentation. The travel award must be used between Oct. 1, 2008 and Sept. 30, 2009.

The FARE 2009 competition is open to postdoctoral IRTAs, CRTAs, visiting fellows and other fellows with fewer than 5 years total postdoctoral experience in the NIH intramural research program. In addition, pre-IRTAs performing their doctoral dissertation research at NIH are also eligible to compete. Visiting fellows/ scientists must not have been tenured at their home institute. Questions about eligibility should be addressed to your institute's scientific director.

Submit your application online, including abstract, from March 14 through April 14, 2008 via http://felcom.od.nih.gov/subCommittee/fare.aspx

Winners will be announced by the end of September 2008. More information is available on the above-mentioned web site. Questions may be addressed to your institute's Fellows Committee (FelCom) representative.

FARE 2009 Committee