Second call for proposals for the European Young Investigator Award
...l last for a five-year period and will include the salary of the award holder and funding for an independent junior research group (including two or three staff positions for doctoral students or postdoctoral students), as well as funding for consumables, travel expenses, etc. Applicants for a EURYI Award s...AAAS 2004 salary survey: Despite long hours and low pay, life scientists love their work
...ife scientists who participated in the second AAAS salary survey are glad to be working in the fields they h...try topping those in academia. The median academic salary for life scientists is about $76,000 and outside academia it's about $88,000. Postdocs are at the lo...UC Riverside professor to spend year with US State Department
...ment, UC Riverside will continue to pay Eastmond's salary and benefits, and he will receive a $50,000 stipend for temporary living expenses in the Washington, D.C., area. The three-year pilot program is administered by the National Academies and supported by a partnership between the MacArthur Foundation a...HHMI commits more than $30 million to help reverse brain drain, beat infectious diseases
... and travel to scientific meetings, in addition to salary support for the researcher and his or her laboratory staff. A portion of each HHMI grant is earmarked for equipment, supplies, and other support for the international scholar's home institution. Two previous rounds of grants in 1995 and 2000 to scie...Principal investigators named for international scholars in breast cancer research program
...titution will receive an annual grant to support a salary for the Scholar; direct research expenses; institutional expenses, such as travel to and from the home country and other relevant expenses not directly related to research; and a stipend to cover award administration. Scholars will receive travel gra...HHMI international programs build science capacity in developing countries
...ties for collaboration and travel to meetings, and salary support, not only to the scholar but to her/his laboratory personnel."...The DFG announces EURYI Awards for Germany
...l last for a five-year period and will include the salary of the award holder and funding for an independent junior research group (including two or three staff positions for doctoral students or postdoctoral students), as well as funding for consumables, travel expenses, etc. Applicants for a EURYI Award s...Applications accepted for research fellowships by the American Association for Cancer Research
...year grants of $30,000-$35,000 per year to support salary and benefits for postdoctoral and clinical fellows. In addition, recipients will receive registration and support for travel expenses to attend the 2004 AACR Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida and accept the award. Unless noted, awards are open to in...Portuguese teacher gets hands-on look at cutting-edge research at EMBL, Germany
...ities are free of charge, Maria Goretti's teaching salary did not allow her to cover the cost of travel and accomodation for the course. Fortunately, two Portuguese institutions understood the importance of the participation of Portuguese teachers in such international training activities. Fundao Calouste G...Plant diversity has 'luxury' effect, say scientists
...attens out, however, at about the $50,000 per year salary mark," said scientist Charles Redman. "When investigating urban systems, we must re-conceptualize biodiversity in terms of human choice, and in terms of how choices are made, and why." These findings, published in this week's on-line issue of the ...Principal investigators invited to apply for AACR Breast Cancer Research program
...Foundation-AACR Scholar will be awarded $50,000 in salary per year, in addition to $25,000 for direct research support, two $1,000 travel grants to support the Scholar's attendance at two AACR Annual Meetings, and a complimentary AACR Active membership during the duration of the award term. Each host instit...Initiative launched for computer science
...cience. The 16 junior scientists are to receive a salary corresponding to BAT 1a of Germany's statutory salary scale as well as extensive support for setting up a study group of their own at a research instituti...Gene variant discovery could save blood in surgery
...ounded and directs. The VPSD provides two years of salary support to new physician-scientists so that they can spend 75 percent of their time engaged in research. The VPSD was a program essential for getting my project off the ground, said Donahue, who was mentored by senior scientist Dr. Alfred L. George J...IFDC innovative technology increases farmers' agricultural productivity, maintains resource base
...family labor are 2-6 times higher than the average salary rate prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. The ISFM project is now operating in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Togo with more than 2,000 farmers in more than 100 villages participating. Emphasis is placed on participatory approach......tween August 2000 and August 2001, suggesting that salary increases within the life sciences sector continue to outperform raises for many other jobs. The AAAS survey of 19,000 life scientists describes current compensation trends and identifies key issues affecting job satisfaction among researchers. Comp...... in the museum's paleontology budget -- except his salary -- is donated by corporations or individuals. Emily Rayfield is a scientist from the University of Cambridge in England. She contacted the Horners a couple of years ago because of her interest in the skull of a meat-eating dinosaur from the late Jur...