The Deadline for the 2010 Travel Award program has passed.  Information for the 2011 Travel award program will be posted here at the end of January, 2011.  Please click the link below to view the list of selected awardees for this year's Annual meeting.

List of 2010 ACNP Travel Awardees

Travel Award Guidelines for 2010

The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) annually selects distinguished young scientists in the field of neuropsychopharmacology to be a part of our Travel Award program. These awards offer an opportunity to attend an outstanding scientific program in clinical and basic research on brain-behavior-drug interactions; become aware of the most recent, and often unpublished, advances in psychopharmacology; and meet and interact with internationally distinguished researchers and scientists. 

All applicants for an ACNP Travel Award complete one common application.  However, there are several various categories within the ACNP Travel Awards: The ACNP Young Investigator Memorial Travel Award, The Travel Award for Minorities and Women, The Early Career Travel Award and The Faculty Research Fellowship.  Additional details on these awards are listed below.

Specific benefits include:

• An ACNP member mentor for the meeting
• Registration for recipient and for accompanying other, $100 ground transportation, up to five nights lodging, and round trip coach air fare to attend the ACNP meeting in Miami, Florida, December 5-9, 2010.
• A daily stipend of $50 for meals and other annual meeting expenses incurred for up to six days
• The opportunity to present a poster at the annual meeting without an ACNP member sponsor.
• An automatic invitation to attend two future ACNP annual meetings with reduced registration fee, and the opportunity to present a poster at each meeting without the need of an ACNP member sponsor.  
• The opportunity to be selected to make a research presentation to the meeting attendees.

ACNP TRAVEL AWARDS

• The ACNP Young Investigator Memorial Travel Awards: These awards were established to commemorate the life and work of deceased College members who made major contributions to the field of neuropsychopharmacology: Louis S. Lasagna (1923-2003), Marian Weinbaum Fischman (1939-2001), Arnold J. Friedhoff (1923-2001), Leo Hollister (1920-2000), Seymour Kety (1915-2000), Heinz E. Lehmann (1911-1999), Jerry Sepinwall (1940-1998), Menek Goldstein (1926-1997), Daniel X. Freedman (1921-1993), and Gerald L. Klerman (1928-1992). Please click here to learn more about these members and how their careers shaped the landscape of neuropsychopharmacology research.
• The Travel Award for Minorities and Women: Through the Travel Award Program, the College encourages the development of young scientists from minority populations as well as women, so that the field of neuropsychopharmacology may see an increased number of researchers from women and underrepresented minority groups (including but not limited to African-American, Asian, Hispanic, Native American, and US Pacific Islander). These individuals might be graduate students, residents, fellows, new/young faculty members, Physicians and Ph.D. level scientists who are no more than five years beyond their last residency, fellowship, postdoctoral training or other comparable training experience.
• The Early Career Travel Award: These awards are available for young scientists who have, through their research, teaching, or clinical activities, demonstrated professional and scientific interest in the field of neuropsychopharmacology and have received Early Career Development K or R Awards from the NIH.

These awards are limited to young scientists from North American facilities. Applicants must be an American citizen or permanent visa resident living in the United States. Those individuals who are in the process of applying for their green card may apply for this award. Previous Travel Awardees are not eligible.

FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

Supported by an educational grant from Eli Lilly and Company, this Fellowship is designed to enhance the quality of teaching and research at accredited medical schools and/or universities with a significant enrollment of underrepresented minority students in fields related to neuropsychopharmacology; to increase their research skills; develop active and successful research programs in their home institutions; and to provide increased opportunities for minority scientists to enter research careers in neuropsychopharmacology.

List of 2010 ACNP Travel Awardees

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