JDRF Travel Grants Open for Applications

JDRF provides grants of up to $2,000 for domestic travel, and up to $4,000 for international travel to early stage scientists, mid-career researchers and allied health/nursing professionals. The awards are designed to provide funding for travel to research institutions or scientific meetings, for the purpose of furthering the recipient’s expertise in type 1 diabetes research or management.

Three categories of Travel Grants are available:

Early Stage Scientist Travel Grants for medical and science graduates who are undertaking type 1 diabetes research, and researchers in the early stage of their career (PhD students or not more than 5 years post-doctoral as of the current Travel Grant round deadline).

Mid-Career Researcher Travel Grants to support mid-career medical or science researchers (more than five years post-doctoral as of the current Travel Grant round deadline) excluding associate professors and above, with no other access to travel funding. To be eligible to apply for a mid-career researcher's Travel Grant, the applicant is required to obtain a letter from their institution confirming that their institution does not provide travel funding for mid-career researchers. A maximum of two mid-career researcher Travel Grants are awarded per round.

Allied Health and Nursing Travel Grants for allied health or nursing professionals or students, enrolled in a post graduate research program, whose research will impact on the lives of people with type 1 diabetes and their carers and families.

Eligibility

Applicants must be currently working at an Australian institution; Australian citizens or permanent/temporary residents currently residing in Australia. Applicants must also be engaged with Australian diabetes research for more than 12 months; however, if this does not apply, contact Dr Julia Warning at JDRF on 02 9020 6105 to discuss possible eligibility.

Further information about this call and scheme guidelines can be found at the following link. 

Key dates:

·        MRO compliance check deadline (via Pure): 12th September 2018

·        Funder deadline: 5pm 19th September 2018