IFMRS Travel Grants

IFMRS travel grants are available for members of IFMRS member societies to attend any IFMRS member society or affiliated event.  Please note that grants cannot be awarded retrospectively.

NB: Successful applicants may be contacted by the IFMRS to provide content for the IFMRS on-line learning environment, HubLE.

UPCOMING ELIGIBLE MEMBER SOCIETY EVENTS

Bisphosphonates 2019 – celebrating 50 years
15-17 July 2019, Sheffield, UK (IFMRS Affiliated event)

The 4th International Chinese Musculoskeletal Research Conference
9-12 August 2019, Shenzhen, CHINA

XIII Cumbre Iberoamericana de Osteologia y metabolismo mineralXII Congreso Panameño de Osteoporosis
22-24 August 2019, Panama City, Panama

ASBMR 2019 Annual Meeting
20-23 September 2019, Orlando, Florida, USA

XIVth Congress of International Society of Bone Morphometry
September 23–26,2019, Orlando, Florida, USA

25th Annual meeting of the Australian & New Zealand Orthopaedic Research Society (ANZORS)
4-6 October 2019, Canberra, Australia

XXIV SEIOMM Congress 2019
16-18 October 2019 Girona, SPAIN

37th Annual Meeting of the JSBMR11-14 October 2019, Kobe, JAPAN

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Eligibility
Finance
Application & Review Process
Application Form

Eligibility

Applicants must satisfy the following criteria:

  • be an individual member of an IFMRS affiliated society – see a list of current affiliated societies here.
  • applicants who have submitted an abstract will be given preference
  • have not previously received an IFMRS travel grant
  • qualification of PhD and/or MD, DDS, DMD or veterinary degree
  • within 15 years of gaining most advanced degree

Finance

  • Individual grants of up to $500 each are available as a contribution towards travel and registration fees
  • Payment made post-event on proof of attendance
  • Grants are allocated on a quarterly basis to eligible applicants

Application and review process

  1. Check you qualify for eligibility (see above)
  2. Complete the application form
  3. Email the form and attachments to ifmrs@ifmrs.org

Your application will be checked and reviewed by representatives from the IFMRS grants committee. We aim to notify applicants within 3 weeks of the event date.

Please note that there is a budget for each member society which is allocated on a quarterly basis.  If your society has reached its limit you may not be eligible, even if the application process is still open to other societies and/or their annual meeting.

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING WHO HAVE BEEN AWARDED IFMRS TRAVEL GRANTS TO ATTEND IFMRS EVENTS

ASBMR 2018
Feng Pan (Menzies Institute)
Michaela Reagan (Maine Medical Center Research Inst)
Eveline Boudin (University of Antwerp)
Ho Yee Wong (University of Hong Kong)
Marian Schini (University of Sheffield)
Zixue Jin (Baylor College of Medicine)

ECTS 2018
Simona Bolamperti (University Medical School Hamburg)
Davide Komla Ebri (ICL, London)
Mattia Capulli (University of L’Aquila)
Frederic Velard (Reims University)
Petar Milovanivic (Belgrade University)
Lucie Bourgoin (Geneva University)

ORS 2018
Severin Ruoss (Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland)
Chao Liu (New York University Bioengineering Dept)
Jasmine (Li) Xiao (Orthopaedic Research, University of Virginia)
Mathieu Riffault (Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, Dublin )
Vittoriio Gatti(City College of New York)
Pamela Cabahug-Zuckerman (New York University)

ASBMR 2017
Rachel Duckham (Deakin University)
Sharon Brennan-Olsen (University of Melbourne)