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Student/Early Career Investigator Travel Fellowship Program
Application Deadline: January 2, 2009
Fellowship Description
The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) anticipates funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and supplementary funding from the AED Scholarship Fund to support travel fellowships for students and early career investigators to attend the AED 2009 International Conference on Eating Disorders in Cancun, Mexico, to be held on April 30 – May 2, 2009.
All fellows will be invited to attend a Research Training Day program on April 29, 2009. Led by internationally renowned faculty, the Research Training Day is open by invitation only. In addition, a subset of the travel fellows will be invited to present their research at a special paper session. The travel stipend will cover the registration fee of the conference and support for air or ground transportation and hotel accommodation. The specific amount of travel support to be offered will be based on the applicant’s permissible travel costs. The maximum stipend is US $1,500.
Additional stipends will be provided with special funding from AED.
Preference will be given to applicants who have not yet received the fellowship.
Eligibility Criteria
Two application pathways are available for this fellowship. Applicants can apply via both pathways if all eligibility criteria are met.
Guide to Eligibility |
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NIMH Application Pathway
You are eligible for the NIMH application pathway if: |
AED Application Pathway
You are eligible for the AED application pathway if: |
You are a U.S. citizen |
You are an AED member |
You are a current trainee |
You are a current trainee or you are fewer than three years post-training |
Application Guidelines
Applicants should submit the following materials:
- Common application – Click here to download this application. This is a general application form for all AED scholarship applications. Please complete both this general form and the Student/Early Career scholarship application form.
- Student/Early Career scholarship application - Click here to download application requirements.
- A brief statement describing your career goals and how the fellowship will further these goals. Include either:
a. Documentation of current training status as an undergraduate student, graduate student, postdoctoral fellow or resident in a field of study of relevance to the understanding or treatment/prevention of eating and weight disorders.
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b. Hold an academic appointment no more than three years post training.
- If you submitted an abstract for the 2008 International Conference on Eating Disorders, include a copy of that abstract.
- Two letters of endorsement
Successful candidates will have a demonstrated interest in research in eating and weight disorders, show promise as researchers and meet the eligibility criteria regarding trainee status.
All application materials should be sent electronically to the AED Headquarters at earlycareer@aedweb.org no later than January 2, 2009.
Questions?
Contact AED Headquarters:
Phone: 847/ 498-4274, ask for extension 265 or 229
Email: info@aedweb.org
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