FCE Travel Award Recipients Announced for FOCIS 2018

Thank you to the FCEs who nominated trainees to attend the FCE Fusion event, Wednesday, June 20, 2018, during FOCIS 2018 at San Francisco Marriott Marquis, San Francisco, CA, USA.

The FCE Travel Award is intended to provide trainees with the opportunity to present their work during a poster session and receive mentoring and feedback from FCE directors, as well as to defray some of the cost of attending the FCE Fusion event and FOCIS 2018. To be eligible for this opportunity, the trainee must submit an abstract to FOCIS 2018 by January 24, 2018.

Travel Award recipients participating in FCE Fusion will be provided with complimentary FOCIS 2018 registration, as well as a travel grant award (valued up to $500) to attend FCE Fusion and FOCIS 2018.

A total of 30 travel awards are available, and are granted on a first come, first served basis. Any competitive selection process within your institution is at your discretion.

Below is list of all FCE Travel Award recipients for the FCE Fusion Event at FOCIS 2018. FOCIS is pleased to extend this travel award opportunity to the FCE community.

FCE Name Recipient
BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute Laura Cook
BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute Henry Lu
Centre of Translational Immunology. Institut Pasteur de Montevideo. Sofia Russo
Centre of Translational Immunology. Institut Pasteur de Montevideo. Valentina Perez
Columbia University Mohsen Khosravi Maharlooei
Duke Unviersity Scott Neidich
Duke Unviersity Erika Crosby
FOCIS Center of Excellence Sao Paulo Letícia D’Argencio Garcia
Gent Céline Mortier
Giannina Gaslini Institute Stefano Volpi
Hospital for Special Surgery Noa Shwartz
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion, Salvador Zubiran Jose Jiram Torres-Ruiz
King’s College London Tiong Yeng Lim
King’s College London Lachrissa Burns
Nantes University Cédric Louvet
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Mustafa H. Ghanem
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Su Song
Toronto Human Immunology Network Alexandra Paun
Toronto Human Immunology Network Maria Edilova
UAB Barcelona FCE Alberto Mendoza-Valderrey
UAB Barcelona FCE Aina Teniente
University of California-San Francisco Marlys Fassett
University of California-San Francisco Linda Vo
University of California-San Francisco Hesham Shehata
University of California-San Francisco Linda Lee
University of California-San Francisco Roberto Ricardo-Gonzales
Universidad Nacional de La Plata Karina Canziani
Université Paris Diderot INSERM U1160, Paris, FR Marie Roelens
University of Pittsburgh Lawrence Andrews
University of Pittsburgh Ann Piccirillo
Yale University FCE Jonathan Merola
Yale University FCE Catherine Xie
University of Oslo Sudan Prasad Neupane
UW/Benaroya Research Institute Catriona Wagner
UW/Benaroya Research Institute Elisa Balmas
September 26, 2018