Tourette Syndrome Association, Inc.
The Tourette Sysndrome Association is accepting applicatoins for their grant awards in the basic and clinical sciences. These awards are being offered for up to $75,000 to Ph.D. and M.D. applications and $40,000 for post-doctoral fellowships. Fields of interest include:
- Basal ganglia
- Physiology
- Neuroimaging
- Genetics
- Animal models
- Neuropathology
- Neurochemistry
- Psychiatry
- Neuropsychology
- Clinical treatment studies
Deadline: October 3, 2007
More info: http://www.tsa-usa.org/research.html
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CIGER Challenge programs call for pre-proposals
The Consultative Group on International Agricultural research (www.cgiar.org) invites all interested parties to develop pre- proposals on any of the following ideas for Challenge Programs (a) climate change, agriculture and food security (c) combating desertification (dry land degradation).
Deadline: September 10, 2007
More info: http://www.cgiar.org/impact/challenge/cp_cycle2.html
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 The Royal Society
Call for proposals
Would you like to organize a conference at home of UK science?
The royal society is now inviting proposals for its scientific Discussion Meeting programme in 2009. This is a unique and fantastic opportunity to run an interdisciplinary international two-day conference on novel, innovative and exciting areas of science.
Deadline: October 1, 2007
More info: www.royalsoc.ac.uk/scientists
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 The Parkinson’s disease Society (PDS)
Project grant Applications
As a part of our continuing commitment to build research capacity related to Parkinson’s, we wish to invite applications for our highly successful and established project grant scheme.
Applications are invited for project grants of up to three years. Grants are tenable only at a United Kingdom University, an NHS Trust, a statutory Social Care organization, or other research institution.
The Parkinson’s Diseases Society supports Biomedical, Health and Social Care and Social Policy research and wishes to particularly encourage research related to the improvement of the quality of life for people with the Parkinson’s.
Application forms may be obtained from our website,
http://www.parkinsons.org.uk/
Research Office,
Parkinson’s disease society,
215 Vauxhall Bridge Road,
London SW1V 1EJ
email: research@parkinsons.org.uk
Deadline: Friday, Septmber 7, 2007
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The Lagrange Prize-Fondazione CRT
On Complex Systems - Noticification of Competition- YEAR 2007
Aim an Criteria: The Lagrange Prize-Fondazione CRT aims at promoting research activities on complex systems. Both theoretical and experimental research activities are taken into account. In particular, the prize will be awarded to such scientific research which, having generated a large impact on the international scientific community, has enabled the accomplishment of exceptional results in the science field of complex system and its applications in the decade prior to the publishing of this notice of competition.
The prize is assigned every year to two researchers. The prizes, each one endowed with the amount of €75,000 are assigned to individual researchers whom will be proclaimed as winners within December 2007 by scientific commission.
Deadline for candidature submission:
The candidacy dossier related to the year 2007 and including all documents has to be received by ISI Foundation within Oct.30th 2007.
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NIH Foreign Research Career Transition Award. Program
The NIH intramural program principally centered at the Bethesda Maryland Campus Conducts basic biomedical and clinical research while providing traning opportunities for more than 5000 young scientists.
Germany
http://fellowshipoffice.niddk.nih.gov/nih-dfg
France
http://fellowshipoffice.niddk.nih.gov/nih-inserm
Flanders/Belgium
http://fellowshipoffice.niddk.nih.gov/nih-fwo
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