Toxicology Grants

International Association for Dental Research Pharmacology/Therapeutics/Toxicology Research Award

Supported by Wyeth Consumer Healthcare

Established by the IADR PTT Group, and supported by Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, this award recognizes contributions to the understanding of the mechanisms, efficacy, and safety of drugs used to treat dental disease and associated symptoms such as pain and peri-operative apprehension. In practice, this encompasses basic and clinical pharmacology studies of analgesics, anesthetics, sedatives, fluorides, and other drug classes used by dentists. The Award is made for outstanding and sustained peer-reviewed research that has contributed to our knowledge of the mechanisms, efficacy, or safety of drugs used in dentistry.

We thank Dr. Stephen Cooper, Senior Vice President at Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, for his continued support.

IADR Distinguished Scientist Awards

The deadline for nominations is 11:59pm (HST) on Friday, September 3, 2010.

Begin a Submission: http://dsa.confex.com/dsa/dsa2011/awards/papers/index.cgi
Login to a previously begun submission: http://dsa.confex.com/dsa/dsa2011/login.htm

About:
The Science Awards Committee has the responsibility of selecting awardees from among the nominations of renowned scientists submitted by Association members. The Committee consists of the Science Awards chair and the subcommittee chair for each award. The subcommittee members are composed of the previous award recipients. Appointments are made annually for a period of five years on a rotation basis. Any IADR member may nominate a candidate for a science award. Once a nomination is made, it is considered each year for five years unless the nominee is selected for an award during this period. After the fifth year, the nomination is withdrawn unless a re-nomination is received.

Eligibility:

Science Awards subcommittees are composed of previous winners of the awards; therefore, subcommittee members may not be nominated again for the same award. Members of Science Awards subcommittees may be nominated by another subcommittee. Subcommittee members who have been appointed by the IADR President-elect and who have not already received their subcommittee's award may be nominated for any award; however, appointees must resign if nominated for the award of the subcommittee on which they currently serve.

ONLY IADR members may be nominated.
Posthumous nominations are not acceptable.
Nomination of an individual for more than one award in the same year is discouraged.
No person should be awarded two IADR Science Awards for the same research, with the exception of the Edward H. Hatton and Young Investigator Awards. Any nominations for a second award must include written evidence that the nomination is for work in a different field of research.
Nomination of current IADR and Division Officers is discouraged.
All nominations made within the past five years must be reconsidered in the current selection unless the nominee was selected for an award.

Procedures:
Any IADR member may nominate a candidate for a science award. All nominations must be submitted via the online system.
The following information MUST accompany each nomination and submitted electronically.

Only nominations submitted online will be accepted.

1. Short statement (no more than 700 words) describing the reasons you are nominating the individual for the particular award; and
2. Curriculum vitae

name,
address,
date and place of birth,
education,
honors,
employment,
membership in professional organizations,
bibliography, and
summary of specific scientific contributions of the candidate.
Award: The award consists of a $3,500 cash prize and a plaque presented at Opening Ceremonies of the IADR General Session & Exhibition.

Contact:
Sheri S. Herren
Awards, Fellowships & Grants Manager
sherren@iadr.org

International Association for Dental Research
1619 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-3406

Phone: +1.703.548.0066
Fax: +1.703.548.1883

Colgate-Palmolive Grants for Alternative Research

The Colgate-Palmolive Grants for Alternative Research will identify and support efforts that promote, develop, refine, or validate scientifically acceptable animal alternative methods to facilitate the safety assessment of new chemicals and formulations. Scientists at any stage of career progression may submit a proposal. High priority will be given to projects that:

Use in vitro or non-animal models
Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology
Neurotoxicology
Systemic Toxicology
Sensitization
Acute toxicity

Awards are made as a single lump payment. Awardees can apply again for funding.

This award consists of a plaque and a maximum cash award of $40,000.

Criteria for award:
Applicant

* Applicant’s capacity to conduct the described research
o Must work in an established laboratory or have access to a laboratory able to perform the research detailed in the submission
o Level of training, experience and competence commensurate with proposed research
* Quality of past scientific publications
* Do not have to be a member of the Society of Toxicology (if not a member, awardee will apply)

Implications for the 3R's

* The project clearly lies within the Primary Research Areas defined
* The project has potential for advancing the field of study
* The project will have an impact on experiments involving animals and the method replaces or reduces the number of animals used in research

Research Plan's Scientific and Technical Merit

* Scientific quality and originality of the research plan
* Feasibility of the objectives
* Budget appropriateness and efficiency

Items needed in the application:
1. A. Application face page
B. Proposal, including:

* Title of proposed project and key words
* Abstract containing a brief description of the project in understandable terms (Maximum 200 words)
* Body of proposal (not to exceed 6 pages in length)

2. Curriculum Vitae

3. Institutional letter attesting that the applicant has access to a laboratory

4. Budget sheet

Apply by downloading application files from the SOT's Web site, completing, and uploading to the SOT Awards page.

Mail original application face page with official signatures to:
Colgate-Palmolive Grants for Alternative Research
Society of Toxicology
1821 Michael Faraday Drive, Suite 300
Reston, VA 20190

Society of Toxicology Undergraduate Toxicology Education Program Award

Award Description The Undergraduate Toxicology Education Program Award provides support for awardees to participate in the Undergraduate Education Program at the SOT Annual Meeting. This program is an introduction to the discipline of toxicology for undergraduate science majors and includes an orientation, a special poster session with scientists, and activities with a SOT mentor. The travel awards are for those from institutions that receive a limited amount of Federal funding in science and technology. Students attending institutions NOT included in this institution list http://www.toxicology.org/ai/fa/NSF_List.pdf are eligible. Preference in selection will be for students who are first generation college attendees (that is, neither parent graduated from a four-year academic institution).

Meeting registration and support for travel, lodging, and meals are provided for students who are not local to the meeting site. Students from local institutions receive registration, meeting materials, and an expense stipend.

Apply by downloading application files from the SOT's Web site, completing, and having the advisor e-mail to SOT Headquarters

Mail the signed application page (only) to:

Undergraduate Toxicology Education Program Award
Society of Toxicology
1821 Michael Faraday Drive, Suite 300
Reston, VA 20190

Deadline October 9, 2010

Society of Toxicology Women in Toxicology Special Interest Group Postdoctoral Fellow Achievement Award

Award Description This award shall be given to a SOT postdoctoral fellow member (current or pending) who has demonstrated academic achievement in the field of toxicology and who has provided leadership and service in their chosen field and/or their community. Applicants/Nominees who are not WIT members are strongly encouraged to join.

Applications will be evaluated based on the following items to be submitted:

1) Completed Application Form;

2) Letter of recommendation from the postdoctoral advisor including recognition of the postdoc's demonstration of leadership and service in toxicology and/or their community;

3) Curriculum vitae of the applicant/nominee which includes specific descriptions of the postdoc's scientific and leadership qualifications;

4) abstract of the accepted presentation for the 2011 Annual Meeting (may include figures and graphs; written text not to exceed 2 pages at 12 pt. Times New Roman).

Winner receives an engraved plaque and a $300 cash award.

Contact: Leigh Ann Burns Naas

Deadline December 17, 2010

Society of Toxicology
1821 Michael Faraday Drive, Suite 300
Reston, VA 20190

Phone (703) 438-3115
Fax (703) 438-3113

Colgate-Palmolive Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in In Vitro Toxicology

Award Description The Colgate-Palmolive Company sponsors the Colgate-Palmolive Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in In Vitro Toxicology through the Society of Toxicology to advance the development of alternatives to animal testing in toxicological research. The award is given annually and includes stipend and research-related costs (up to $44,000) for one year. Postdoctoral trainees in their first year of study beyond the Ph.D., M.D., or D.V.M. degree who are at academic institutions, federal/national laboratories, or research institutes worldwide may apply. The next award application deadline is October 9, 2010 for the 2011 award.

The award consists of a plaque and fellowship funds.

Criteria for award:

* Postdoctoral trainees employed by academic institutions, federal/national laboratories, or research institutes
* Doctoral degree must have been conferred before this fellowship is awarded
* Preference will be given to applicants in their first year of postdoctoral study
* Applicant or postdoctoral advisor must be a member or pending member of the Society. If the recipient is not a member, he or she will be required to submit a membership application before the fellowship is conferred
* Proposed research should involve alternative methods as defined by the “three R’s”
* Potential of the proposed work to contribute to the advancement of the field of alternatives

Items needed in the application:
1. A. Application form
B. Budget sheet
C. Description of research to be performed
2. Curriculum vitae
3. Reprints of up to three representative publications
The items above are uploaded at the Awards Web site.

4. Letter of reference from doctoral advisor
5. Letter of reference from the proposed postdoctoral advisor
6. Third letter of reference
Letters of reference are e-mailed directly by the writer to SOT HQ.

Mail original application face page with official signatures to:

Colgate-Palmolive Postdoctoral Fellowship in In Vitro Toxicology
Society of Toxicology
1821 Michael Faraday Drive, Suite 300
Reston, VA 20190

Society of Toxicology Carcinogenesis Specialty Section Postdoctoral Fellowship Award

Award Description The CSS Officers encourage postdoctoral fellows to submit their 2011 abstracts for competition for best abstract awards. To qualify, your work must be related to the field of carcinogenesis. The due date for submission is November 16, 2010. Applicants should submit an electronic version of their abstract, a 1–2 page narrative describing their research hypothesis, background and significance, and a letter of recommendation from their advisor (not to exceed 2 pages) as a pdf document to Dr. Heather Kleiner.

One Postdoctoral Fellowship awardee will be selected and will receive $500 and a plaque. The winner of the Postdoctoral Fellowship Award will also be invited to serve on the CSS executive committee as the Postdoctoral Representative. The CSS Officers will invite the First Place participants to join the CSS Officers' executive committee meeting which is held at the Annual Meeting in March.

Awards will be announced during the CSS meeting at the Annual Meeting.

Contact: Dr. Heather Kleiner

Deadline November 16, 2010

Society of Toxicology
1821 Michael Faraday Drive, Suite 300
Reston, VA 20190

Phone (703) 438-3115
Fax (703) 438-3113

Society of Toxicology Syngenta Fellowship Award in Human Health Applications of New Technologies

The Syngenta Fellowship Award in Human Health Applications of New Technologies is presented to either a third year (or later) graduate student or a postdoctoral trainee. The funding ($15,000) is to support mode-of-action research aimed at characterizing dose-dependent effects of xenobiotics on mammalian systems in such a way that the causal sequence of key events underlying toxicity is elucidated. The work should permit a quantitative basis for extrapolation of the results from animal bioassays or animal models (in silico, in vitro) to humans at relevant human doses. The awardee will receive funding to travel to the SOT Annual Meeting to accept the award and for travel to a Syngenta facility to present the results. This is a one year, non-renewable award.

The award consists of a plaque, fellowship funds, travel to the SOT meeting to accept the award, and travel to a Syngenta site to present the results.

Criteria for award:

* Third year (or later) graduate student or postdoctoral trainee employed by academic institution, federal/national laboratory, or research institute
* Applicant is member of the Society, or membership is pending at application deadline. Does not have to be a member (if not a member, awardee will apply before the fellowship is conferred).

Items needed in the application:
1. Application form, which includes:
A.Budget
B.Brief project description
C.Candidates to articulate how their work provides data that will permit a quantitative basis for extrapolation of the results from animal studies to human at relevant human doses.
2. Graduate transcripts
3. Copies of up to three of the applicant's publications or abstracts if available.

Apply by downloading application files from the SOT Web site, completing, and uploading the files to the SOT Awards page.

4. Reference form and letter from research director
5. Reference form and second letter of reference
6. Reference form and third letter of reference
Letters of reference are e-mailed directly by the writer to sotadmin@toxicology.org.

Mail a hard copy of the signed application form to:

Syngenta Fellowship Award
Society of Toxicology
1821 Michael Faraday Drive, Suite 300
Reston, VA 20190

Letters of reference are e-mailed directly by the writer to SOT HQ.

Deadline October 9, 2010

Society of Toxicology
1821 Michael Faraday Drive, Suite 300
Reston, VA 20190

Phone (703) 438-3115
Fax (703) 438-3113

Society of Toxicology Risk Assessment Specialty Section Robert J. Rubin Student Travel Award

Award Description The Mechanisms and Risk Assessment Specialty Sections Robert J. Rubin Student Travel Award provides travel awards to one or more graduate students to participate in the Annual Meeting of the SOT. Recipients of the Rubin Award will be selected by a Committee jointly appointed by the leadership of the Mechanisms Specialty Section and the Risk Assessment Specialty Section. The Award Recipient(s) will be selected based on the scientific quality of the abstract of a presentation that applies mechanistic toxicology to risk assessment and that has been accepted for presentation at an Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology. The abstract and presentation should be based on the student's research. Applications for the Award will be accepted for presentations to be given up to one year after the Award Recipient receives their doctoral degree.

Contact: Robinan Gentry

This award is made possible by the Robert J. Rubin Student Travel Award Fund of the SOT Endowment.

Deadline January 22, 2011

Society of Toxicology
1821 Michael Faraday Drive, Suite 300
Reston, VA 20190

Phone (703) 438-3115
Fax (703) 438-3113
 

Society of Toxicology Mechanisms Specialty Section Robert J. Rubin Student Travel Award

Award provides travel awards to one or more graduate students to participate in the Annual Meeting of the SOT. Recipients of the Rubin Award will be selected by a Committee jointly appointed by the leadership of the Mechanisms Specialty Section and the Risk Assessment Specialty Section. The Award Recipient(s) will be selected based on the scientific quality of the abstract of a presentation that applies mechanistic toxicology to risk assessment and that has been accepted for presentation at an Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology. The abstract and presentation should be based on the student's research. Applications for the Award will be accepted for presentations to be given up to one year after the Award Recipient receives their doctoral degree.

Contact: Robinan Gentry

This award is made possible by the Robert J. Rubin Student Travel Award Fund of the SOT Endowment.

Deadline January 22, 2011

Society of Toxicology
1821 Michael Faraday Drive, Suite 300
Reston, VA 20190

Phone (703) 438-3115
Fax (703) 438-3113

Korean Toxicologists Association in America Special Interest Group Young Soo Choi Student Scholarship Award

Award Description The Young Soo Choi Student Scholarship Fund proceeds will be used to provide a lump sum scholarship for graduate training in toxicology to a Korean student.

The criterion used to select recipients of the Choi Scholarship are as follows:

1. Applicants for the Scholarship shall be Korean individuals (having been born in Korea or, if born in the United States, having one or more parents of Korean descent).
2. The individual shall be enrolled, or planning to enroll, in a graduate program in toxicology or in a field of biomedical science related to toxicology.
3. Selection will be based on merit and financial need with consideration given to the following:
a. A description of the student’s graduate program including a summary of any research conducted or planned.
b. Copies of any abstracts prepared by the student for presentations given at meetings of the SOT or other professional Societies (preference will be given to individuals who have given or plan to give a presentation at the SOT Annual Meeting).
c. A brief statement from the student indicating how receipt of the Choi Scholarship will assist in their graduate training.
d. A letter of recommendation from the student’s mentor.

This award is made possible by the Young Soo Choi Student Scholarship Fund of the SOT Endowment.

The deadline for submission of applications is Friday, January 8, 2011. Full applications should be submitted as an e-mail (titled as KTAA SIG Choi Award application) to Sang-Tae Kim.

Society of Toxicology
1821 Michael Faraday Drive, Suite 300
Reston, VA 20190

Phone (703) 438-3115
Fax (703) 438-3113