ECITAs Provide Funding for Early-Career Investigators from Diverse Backgrounds to Attend Conferences

This month we are featuring our Early-Career Investigator Travel Award initiative that aims to increase the success of early-career investigators from underrepresented backgrounds at the assistant professor or government, non-profit, etc., scientist equivalent level. ECITAs provide $1,200 to help defray conference expenses, including registration, ground/air transportation, and lodging for in-person attendance at a Keystone Symposia conference, where emerging researchers benefit from critical opportunities to:

• establish new collaborations
• gain exposure for their research
• network informally with colleagues
• meet with prospective postdoctoral candidates
• invaluable career-advancement opportunities
  

We are now accepting ECITAs applications for 2022 conferences!

See Deadlines Below and Apply Now!

DEADLINE: JULY 10

• Vertebrate Sensory Systems

DEADLINE: JULY 15

• Neurocircuitry of Social Behavior
  

DEADLINE: JULY 20 

• Sleep and Circadian Biology - Maintaining Tempo for Optimal Health
• Neuroimmunometabolism - Obesity at the Crossroads between Neuroimmunity and Immunometabolism
• Interconnection between the Gut, Brain, and Microbiome for Metabolic Disease
  
  

DEADLINE: JULY 25

• COVID and Beyond: Novel Approaches to Global Infectious Diseases
• Exosomes, Microvesicles, and Other Extracellular Vesicles
• Heart Failure: Mechanisms and Therapies 
• Mitochondria, Metabolism and Heart

DEADLINE: AUG 30

• Ubiquitin Biology
• Targeted Protein Degradation
• The Human Microbiome: Ecology and Evolution
• Novel Approaches Against Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance
  
  
  

Stay tuned! The window to apply for our 2023 conferences will open soon. Please continue to monitor the ECITA application site for updates.

About Keystone Symposia Diversity Programs

Early-Career Investigator Awards are part of Keystone Symposia's Diversity in Life Sciences Program that seeks to foster diversity and inclusivity in the biological sciences and build a future where biomedical and biological research encompasses and serves the interests of diverse populations. Our diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives include our flagship Keystone Symposia Fellows Program, travel support for trainees and early-stage investigators from underrepresented backgrounds, as well as expanded programming on healthy equity research and awareness.