PSC Partners Seeking a Cure: AASLD Award Announcement

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From the AASLD website (http://www.aasld.org)

Look under: Meetings/The Liver Meeting 2007/Abstracts/Abstract Awards

November 2-6, 2007

Boston, Massachusetts

B. Hynes Convention Center

58th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of

Liver Diseases

Abstract Awards

The following awards are available for individuals submitting

abstracts to The Liver Meeting® 2007. The application process is

conducted through the abstract submitter " Awards " page. All

applicants must meet the criteria stated in the abstract submitter in

order to be considered for these individual awards. All award

applications are peer reviewed. The deadline for submission is June

6, 2006 at 5:00 pm Eastern Time.

Young Investigator $500 (12 available)

These awards enable young researchers submitting abstracts for the

AASLD Research Workshop to receive travel support. Applicants must be

35 years old or younger and fluent in English. Your abstract will

only be considered for an award if it relates to the 2007 Research

Workshop topic. The topic for 2007 is Regulatory T Cells Intolerance

and Immunity to the Liver.

Student Research $500 (1 available)

Applicant must be a graduate or undergraduate student (i.e. has not

received an MD, PhD, or equivalent doctoral degree) and is the

primary contributor to the research.

Research Fellow $750 (1 available)

This prize is awarded for the best abstract submitted by a fellow.

Pediatric Fellow $750 (1 available)

The purpose of the award is to foster excellence in pediatric liver

disease research. Only a physician/scientist with a primary

appointment affiliation in a department of pediatrics will be

eligible.

NEW--PSC Partners Seeking a Cure Award $3000

(1 available)

This award shall be given to one investigator presenting the most

promising PSC research at The Liver Meeting® 2007. All abstracts

submitted to the Human Cholestatic and Autoimmune Liver Diseases

Category, PSC descriptor will be considered for this award (there is

not a formal application process for this award). Notification will

be made in August. This award can be used to support travel and

accommodation expenses associated with participation in the AASLD

Annual Meeting, or for supplies and expenses for PSC research.

The awardee will also be invited to attend the PSC Partners Seeking a

Cure Annual Conference (www.pscpartners.org).

AASLD gratefully acknowledges PSC Partners Seeking a Cure for their

generous support of this award.

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And a big " THANK YOU " to all who have generously donated to PSC

Partners Seeking a Cure!

Dave

(father of (22); PSC 07/03; UC 08/030)