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 K.U.Leuven
K.U.Leuven has the opportunity to attract top level researchers in the framework of the Odysseus program of the Flemish government. The aim is to compete in the European Research Area by inviting researchers, who established their careers abroad, to pursue leading-edge research at K.U.Leuven. Successful applicants receive a full-time nomination at the University of Leuven plus a five-year research budget ranging from €500.00 for outstanding post-docs up to €7,500.00 for established group leaders. Applications are open in all disciplines of Biomedicine and Science & Engineering.
Deadline: September 1, 2006
More info: http://www.kuleuven.be/gedocumenteerd/e/d/oproep/odysseus.htm
Contact Director for Biomedical Research: Peter.Marynen@gbiomed.kuleuven.be.
Contact Director for Research in Science and Engineering: Arnout.Ceulemans@chem.kuleuven.be.
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 World Cancer Research Fund International
World Cancer Research Fund International is now inviting applications for grants to fund research into the effects of food, nutrition and physical activity on the origins, causes and prevention of cancer. Grants will be for a maximum of £150,000 up to four years, with no more than £50,000 in any one year. In general, preference is given to applications that address the dietary and research recommendations of the WCRF/AICR expert report, and consider diets or foods as a whole and/or use whole-body systems; use foods or dietary constituents in physiological amounts; have direct relevance to human cancer; address cancer prevention in preference to treatment; address genetic polymorphism in relation to nutrition (gene-nutrient interaction).
The deadline for outline applications is 22nd September 2006.
For more information, please visit the following website: http://www.wcrf.org/research/research_grant_programme.lasso.
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 Parkinson's Disease Society
The Project Grant Scheme has:
- Three years duration
- No upper limit on funding allowed but applicants must fully justify the sum requested in the application
- Funding for the salary for Principal Investigator is not allowed
Deadline:
September 8, 2006
More info: http://www.parkinsons.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=100515
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 Royal Society Innovation Awards
The Brian Mercer Feasibility award provides up to £30,000 to enable researchers to test the technicalor economic feasibility of an idea product or process relating to the built environment, nanotechnology or electrotechnology.
Deadline: October 16,2006
More Info: http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=1112
The Brian Mercer Award for innovation £250,000
Deadline: September 11, 2006
More Info: http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=1112
The Mullard Award £1.500
Deadline: October 16, 2006
More Info: http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=1112
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Useful Website
 Digital Morphology library
Digital Morphology, part of the National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative, develops and serves unique 2D and 3D visualizations of the internal and external structure of living and extinct vertebrates, and a growing number of 'invertebrates'. The Digital Morphology library contains nearly a terabyte of imagery of natural history specimens that are important to education and central to ongoing cutting-edge research efforts. The Digital Morphology library site now serves imagery, optimized for Web delivery, for almost 300 specimens contributed by more than 80 collaborating researchers from the world's premiere natural history museums and universities.
http://www.digimorph.org/aboutdigimorph.phtml
http://www.digimorph.org/navlist.phtml?list=short
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