Abstract submissions for FARE2006 will be accepted beginning 4/1 and ending on Friday 4/29.

FARE 2006 Abstract Competition for FellowsOn

The twelfth annual Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE) 2006 competition will again provide recognition for outstanding scientific research performed by intramural postdoctoral fellows. Winners of FARE will each receive a $1,000 travel award to use for attending and presenting their work at a scientific meeting. One-quarter of the fellows who apply will win an award.

Fellows who apply to FARE submit an abstract of their research, which will be evaluated anonymously on scientific merit, originality, experimental design and overall quality/presentation. The travel award must be used between Oct. 1, 2005 and Sept. 30, 2006.

The FARE 2006 competition is open to postdoctoral IRTAs, visiting fellows and other fellows with fewer than 5 years total postdoctoral experience in the NIH intramural research program. In addition, pre-IRTAs performing their doctoral dissertation research at NIH are also eligible to compete. Visiting fellows/scientists must not have been tenured at their home institute.

Questions about eligibility should be addressed to your institute's scientific director. Fellows are asked to submit their application, including abstract, electronically from April 1-29 via
http://felcom.nih.gov/FARE. Winners will be announced by the end of September 2005. More information is available on the web site above.

Questions may be addressed to your institute's fellows committee (Felcom) representative.