N.B. To be eligible for some of these awards, you must renew your ASI membership subscription before April 1. Please read the instructions to applicants carefully!

Summary of Awards

All Members Eligible

• ASI Gordon Ada & Jacques Miller Senior Travel Awards.
• Immunology & Cell Biology Publication of the Year Award.

Postdocs Eligible

• Postdoctoral International Travel Awards
• New Investigator Award
• Science Communication Prize
• Travel Bursaries to attend the Annual Meeting
• Graham Jackson Memorial Poster Prize

Students Eligible

• Postgraduate International Travel Awards
• New Investigator Award
• Science Communication Prize
• Travel Bursaries to attend the Annual Meeting
• Student Poster Prize
• Graham Jackson Memorial Poster Prize

Purpose:

To support senior/mid career members of ASI who wish to travel overseas for career related travel. The awards are not restricted to a particular type or time of travel and may be given for attendance to meetings, sabbaticals, lab visits or any other kind of immunology-related travel.

Eligibility:

Members who have been full ASI members for at least 5 consecutive years prior to the submission of an application are eligible to apply. Previous successful applicants of one of the ASI Gordon Ada or Jacques Miller Senior Travel Awards and current members of the ASI executive are not eligible to apply. Click here to download the guidelines for these awards.

Application procedure:

Assessment Criteria:

Excellence of track record relative to opportunity, purpose of travel and career/professional benefit of the proposed travel as judged by the ASI Executive.

Value:

2 awards per year for up to $10,000 each. A medal will also be presented at the annual meeting following the award.

Purpose:

To reward the best original research article published in Immunology & Cell Biology in that year with an ASI member as first author.

Eligibility:

Financial members of ASI who are the first author on any Original articles, Outstanding Observation articles, Theoretical articles or Short Communications published in Immunology & Cell Biology and who are financial members of ASI by 31st October in the year in which the paper is published

Application procedure:

None required

Assessment Criteria:

Scientific excellence, originality and clarity of presentation of the paper, as judged by a panel comprising the Immunology & Cell Biology Editor, ASI Vice/Past President and current ASI President.

Value:

$1,000 - sponsored by Nature Publishing

Purpose:

To support travel to overseas conferences. These awards are offered twice a year.

Eligibility:

Click here to download the guidelines for the current Postdoctoral International Travel Award application.

Application procedure:

Assessment Criteria:

Scientific excellence and clarity of abstract, publication record, recommendation of supervisor, and likely professional benefits of the proposed travel, as judged by the ASI Executive Committee or their nominees. The committee reserves the right not to make an award.

Value:

A variable number of prizes will be awarded per annum, subject to funding availability, between the Postdoctoral and Postgraduate International Travel Awards. Postgraduate and Postdoctoral candidates will be considered separately. Each prize may be worth up to $3,000

Purpose:

To support travel to overseas conferences. These awards are offered twice a year.

Eligibility:

Click here to download the guidelines for the current Postdoctoral International Travel Award application.

Application procedure:

Assessment Criteria:

Scientific excellence and clarity of abstract, publication record, recommendation of supervisor, and likely professional benefits of the proposed travel, as judged by the ASI Executive Committee or their nominees. The committee reserves the right not to make an award.

Value:

A variable number of prizes will be awarded per annum, subject to funding availability, between the Postdoctoral and Postgraduate International Travel Awards. Postgraduate and Postdoctoral candidates will be considered separately. Each prize may be worth up to $3,000.

Purpose:

To reward the best presentation by a new investigator selected to speak in the New Investigators Symposium at the ASI Annual Scientific Meeting.

Eligibility:

Postgraduate students and postdoctoral investigators (with up to 3 years' research experience after award of PhD) who have been ASI members for the preceding year and the year of the award and have paid their subscription by April 1 of the current year.

Application procedure:

1. Submit your abstract via the conference web site (www.asi2012.org) by 30th September (closing date for early registration and for abstract submission)
2. Add the title of the abstract you wish to have considered into the ASI New Investigator Award Box during the submission procedure
3. Send a copy of your abstract, your CV, and letter of support from your supervisor to the email address listed on the meeting website, including "ASI New Investigator" in the subject line, by 30th September (closing date for early registration and for abstract submission)

Assessment Criteria:

Excellence and originality of scientific content, clarity and organisation of oral and audiovisual presentation, as judged by a panel, none of whom is a past or present supervisor of any speaker.

Value:

$1000 sponsored by ASI and presented at the meeting.

Purpose:

To foster clear communication of exciting science to the media and the public.

Eligibility:

Postgraduate students and postdoctoral investigators (with up to 3 years' research experience after award of PhD) who have been ASI members for the preceding year and the year of the meeting and have paid their subscription by April 1 of the current year.

Application procedure:

1. A "non-scientific language" abstract should be submitted via the conference web site (www.asi2011.org) by 30th September (closing date for early registration and for abstract submission)
2. Add the title of the abstract you wish to have considered into the BD Science Communication Award box during the submission procedure

The meeting organizing committee will short-list abstracts for oral presentation. Selected applicants will make an oral presentation at the annual scientific conference in the BD Science Communication Award session.

Assessment Criteria:

The award will be made to the presentation judged to best combine good science with clear communication by a panel consisting of immunologists, a science journalist and a lay person.

Value:

$500 sponsored by BD and presented at the meeting.

Purpose:

To enable student and early postdoc members to attend the ASI Annual Scientific Meeting.

Eligibility:

Postgraduate students who have been members of ASI for the year of the meeting and have paid their subscription by April 1. Eligibility has been extended to early postdocs (up to 3 years post acceptance of PhD) who have been full or student members (not interim) of ASI for the year prior and the year of the meeting, and have paid their subscription by April 1 in the year of the meeting. Applicants must live outside the city where the meeting is being held, and have not been a recipient of a travel bursary in previous years.

Application procedure:

1. Submit your abstract via the conference web site (www.asi2011.org) by 30th September (closing date for early registration and for abstract submission)
2. Send a copy of your CV (in word format) and abstract to ASI2011Awards@gmail.com, including "ASI Travel Bursary" in the subject line, by 30th September (closing date for early registration and for abstract submission).

Assessment Criteria:

Primarily the scientific excellence and clarity of abstract, the CV and, to a lesser extent, the distance from the site of the meeting, as judged by a panel of judges appointed by the local organising committee of the meeting

Value:

Conference Registration plus a reasonably priced return domestic airfare (NZ counts as domestic airfare for this purpose only)

Purpose:

To reward the best student posters at the ASI Annual Scientific Meeting.

Eligibility:

Students who are ASI members for the year of the meeting. The student must be first author on the poster.

Application procedure:

1. Submit your abstract via the conference web site by 30th September (closing date for early registration and for abstract submission)
2. Add the title of the abstract you wish to have considered into Student Poster Prize box during the submission procedure
3. At the meeting place a sticker on the poster (stickers supplied at meeting)

Assessment Criteria:

Excellence and originality of scientific content, clarity of presentation and visual impact, as judged by a panel of immunologists.

Value:

$500 per award sponsored by Immunology and Cell Biology and ASI and presented at the meeting.

Purpose:

To reward the best poster or oral presentation by a research student or postdoctoral investigator in the area of Mucosal Immunology at the ASI SIG Mucosal Immunology Workshop/Symposium.

Eligibility:

Postgraduate students and postdoctoral investigators (with up to 2 years' research experience after award of PhD) who are current ASI members.

Application procedure:

1. Submit your abstract via the conference web site by 30th September (closing date for early registration and for abstract submission)
2. Select the "Mucosal Immunology" category during the submission procedure
3. Add the title of the abstract you wish to have considered into the Graham Jackson Memorial Prize Box during the submission procedure
4. For posters, place a sticker which will be supplied by the Registration Desk, in the top right hand corner of the poster

Assessment Criteria:

Excellence and originality of scientific content in Mucosal Immunology, clarity of presentation, as judged by a panel of peers, none of whom is a past or present supervisor of any applicant.

Value:

Graham Jackson Memorial Mucosal Immunology Prize:
$250 each sponsored by ASI SIG MI and presented at the meeting.
Normally one prize is awarded, however in exceptional circumstances up to three may be awarded.

Society for Mucosal Immunology:
From time to time the Society for Mucosal Immunology sponsors one or more poster prizes up to the value of $500.