SLAS Travel Award

January 25-29, 2025

San Diego Convention Center

San Diego, CA, USA

The SLAS2025 Travel Awards winners have been announced!

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SLAS Travel Award

The SLAS Travel Award is an annual travel grant program that recognizes up-and-coming researchers who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in laboratory science and technology by providing funding to attend the SLAS International Conference and Exhibition or the SLAS Europe Conference and Exhibition.

Students, graduate students, post-doctoral associates, and junior faculty with less than four years in their first academic appointments, as well as professionals who have completed undergraduate and/or graduate school and are within the first five years of their career are also eligible to apply.

The SLAS2025 submission period is now closed.

Submission Rules

An applicant must be the primary author of a submitted abstract and must present his/her research in either a poster or oral (podium) session at the digital conference. Submitted award applications are reviewed by members of the SLAS Travel Award selection panel and are based on multiple factors, including but not limited to:

The SLAS Travel Award may only be awarded to the same individual twice over the course of their career: once for a Poster presentation and once for Podium presentation, providing the work submitted is significantly different.

Quality of the abstract
The relevance of the research to the SLAS2025 conference
Statement of the value of the conference
Qualifications of the applicant
No more than three applications from the same lab can be submitted per conference. Such applications should all be distinct research topics.
One PI should not write letters of support for more than three students.

View a Sample Abstract

Award Benefits

The award covers the following:

Complimentary Premier SLAS Membership for one year
Full conference registration
Travel stipend including shared hotel accommodations (up to 4 nights) and airfare or train fare.
One workshop registration
Invitation to be featured on the SLAS podcast, New Matter: Inside the Minds of SLAS Scientists
Mentorship opportunity through SLAS Mentor Match Program

Multiple applicants from a single research group are allowed to apply. However, such applicants should understand that award application reviewers may prioritize the applications so that only one individual per investigator's research group receives an award. This decision will be based on funding availability and the criteria listed above.