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IGES 2019 Trainee Awards

The IGES 2019 Scientific Program Committee is pleased to announced the 2019 Awards availability, including the James V. Neel Award, Roger Williams Award, the CIHR STAGE Poster Awards, and the Wellcome Global Junior Researcher Travel Awards.

  • The Roger Williams Award is presented to an outstanding oral presentation by a student enrolled in a bachelor, master or PhD program at the time of registration. The prize includes a check for $1000 and a certificate.

  • The James V. Neel Award is presented to an outstanding oral presentation by a post-doctoral fellow within 5 years of PhD completion at the time of registration. The prize includes a check for $1000 and a certificate.

To be eligible for these awards, the student or post-doctoral researcher must be the first author of the abstract. All eligible outstanding abstracts selected for oral presentation by the Scientific Program Committee will be finalists for the Neel and Williams award. The winners of Neel and Williams award will be selected from among the finalists at the conference based on the quality of their oral presentation and the scientific content of the material presented.

  • cihrlogoThe CIHR STAGE Poster Award Competition is supported by CIHR STAGE (http://www.stage.utoronto.ca). This Dalla Lana School of Public Health research training program in genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics is delighted to continue to offer three awards at $200, $100 and $50 each – and a certificate – for the best poster presentations by a trainee. A team of Young Investigators and Scientific Program committee members will review posters presented by trainees at IGES.


  • wellcomelogoWellcome are pleased to support three “Wellcome Global Junior Researcher Travel Awards”, each of $1250, to support attendance of students and early career postdoctoral fellows from low and middle income countries to attend the 2018 IGES meeting.  These awards enable expansion of the global membership of the society to low and middle income countries and support junior researchers as potential future leaders of the international genetic epidemiology research community.  To be eligible, students and early career postdoctoral fellows must be studying at an institution located in a low or middle income countries at the time of registration.

 

To be eligible for these awards, abstracts must be accepted for the 2019 IGES Conference, October 12-14. The winners will be announced at the Business Meeting at the end of the conference.