Award Opportunities
Award programs at the ABRF 2010 meeting recognize outstanding scientists and students associated with life sciences core facilities and biotechnology research laboratories:
The ABRF Award, sponsored by Agilent, is awarded annually by the ABRF in recognition of outstanding contributions in the field of biotechnology. The awardee will give a lecture at the ABRF 2010 meeting.
ABRF Poster Awards, sponsored by Waters Corporation, gives prizes for the best posters presented at ABRF 2010.
ABRF Research Group / Committee Member Awards recognize the significant contributions of members of the ABRF Research Groups and Committees.
The Journal of Biomolecular Techniques (JBT) Award recognizes the most outstanding research article published during the last year in the journal.
The programs listed below give awards that cover travel and/or registration costs for the ABRF 2010 meeting
(application information is available on the linked web pages):
ABRF Outstanding Scientist/Technologist Travel Awards, sponsored by Life Technologies and ABRF, are available to ABRF members who have made outstanding contributions in their institutional core facilities; have developed new biotechnologies with applications in core facilities; and/or have been active in ABRF activities.
ABRF Student/Post-Doc Poster Awards gives free meeting registrations to students and post docs who present research made possible through collaboration with a core facility.
FASEB Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program, in partnership with the ABRF, offers minority scientists, students and technicians travel awards for participation in the ABRF 2010 conference.