Colgate-Palmolive Awards for Student Training in Alternative Methods
The SOT Awards Committee has selected graduate student award recipients to be recognized at the SOT 52nd Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Aaron Lulla, University of California Los Angeles, California; Jamie Moscovitz, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey; and Alexandra Muñoz, New York University School of Medicine, Tuxedo, New York, are named the 2013 recipients of the Colgate-Palmolive Awards for Student Training in Alternative Methods.
The purpose of the Colgate-Palmolive Awards for Student Research Training in Alternative Methods is to enhance graduate student research training using in vitro methods or alternative techniques to reduce, replace, or refine use of animals in toxicological research.
The training may include, but is not limited to, use of in vitro and ex vivo procedures, nonmammalian animal models, computer modeling, and structure-activity relationships, and is intended to help toxicology graduate students enhance their thesis or dissertation research. The award includes a stipend of up to $3,750 to defray travel, per diem, training expenses, and research costs.
Aaron Lulla
Mr. Lulla will work on his project, “The Dithiocarbamate Fungicide Ziram Results in Endogenous Synuclein Aggregation, Dopaminergic Cell Loss, and Reduced Locomotor Behavior in a Zebrafish Model of Parkinson’s Disease,” in the laboratory of Alvaro Sagasti, University of California, Los Angeles, California.
Jamie Moscovitz
Ms. Moscovitz will travel to the laboratory of Angela Slitt, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, to work on her project, “Utilization of Primary Hepatocytes to Investigate Mechanisms of Chemical Disposition and Toxicity during Pregnancy.”
Alexandra Muñoz
Ms. Muñoz will travel to the laboratory of Carlos Pena, University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, to complete her project, “Multivariate Analysis and Fuzzy Modeling to Detect Nickel and Arsenic-induced Gene Signatures in Microarray Data.”
Syngenta Fellowship Award in Human Health Applications of New Technologies
Julia E. Rager
The SOT Awards Committee has named Julia E. Rager as the 2013 recipient of the Syngenta Fellowship Award in Human Health Applications of New Technologies. Ms. Rager, who expects to receive her PhD in May 2013, will work on her project, “Elucidating the Relationship between Exposure-Induced DNA Damage and Dysregulated MicroRNAs” in the laboratory of Rebecca C. Fry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
The Syngenta Fellowship Award in Human Health Applications of New Technologies is presented to either a third-year (or later) graduate student or a postdoctoral trainee. The funding is intended to support mode-of-action research aimed at characterizing dose-dependent effects of xenobiotics on mammalian systems in such a way that the causal sequence of key events underlying toxicity is elucidated. The work should permit a quantitative basis for extrapolation of the results from animal bioassays or animal models (in silico, in vitro) to humans at relevant human doses. The award consists of $15,000 in fellowship funds as well as travel to the SOT Annual Meeting to accept the award and travel to a Syngenta site to present the results.
SOT Graduate Student Travel Support Awards
More than 70 graduate students will receive Graduate Student Travel Support to attend the Society of Toxicology 52nd Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. SOT Graduate Student Travel Support is provided, in part, with generous contributions from Battelle Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and the Sheldon D. Murphy Memorial Fund, a named fund of the SOT Endowment Fund. The complete list of graduate students receiving these awards will be available in the Historical Awards Listing on the SOT website following the Annual Meeting.
Access more information on these and other SOT Awards on the Awards & Fellowships section of the SOT website by selecting the award criteria for the awards in which you are interested (i.e., Endowment Fund Awards, for Graduate Students, for Postdoctoral Fellows, for Scientists, for Undergraduate Students, and their Advisors, etc.). You also may select a specific award from the complete award listing from the drop-down menu on the SOT Awards and Fellowships page. Please note while most SOT Awards have an annual application deadline of October 9, many awards, especially those offered by SOT Regional Chapters, Special Interest Groups, and Specialty Sections, have deadlines throughout the calendar year. SOT offers more than 160 awards annually via all our programs. Every graduate student presenting at the SOT Annual Meeting is encouraged to apply for Graduate Student Travel Support and all are welcome to submit applications for the Colgate-Palmolive Awards for Student Research Training in Alternative Methods.