Colgate-Palmolive Awards for Student Research Training in Alternative Methods amd Fellowship Award in In Vitro Toxicology
“The Society is committed to discovering the best methods for evaluating the safety of diverse biological agents, which includes finding alternative methods to traditional animal testing,” SOT 2014–2015 President Norbert E. Kaminski stated. “With the generous support of Colgate-Palmolive, SOT is able to foster research into alternative testing methods through a number of grants and awards each year, and this year’s award recipients have proposed projects that will hopefully further the efficiency and effectiveness of these tests.”
Colgate-Palmolive has been supporting SOT Awards dedicated to the development of alternative testing methods that reduce, replace, or refine the use of animals in toxicological research since 1988.
Recipients of 2015 SOT Colgate-Palmolive-supported Awards are as follows:
•Fabian A. Grimm, PhD, Texas A&M University, who is being honored with the 2015 SOT Colgate-Palmolive 
Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in In Vitro Toxicology. This award of up to $44,000 is designed to help postdoctoral trainees advance the development of alternatives to animal testing in toxicological research. Dr. Grimm is pictured at the left.
•Prajakta Shimpi, MS, University of Rhode Island, who is being awarded a 2015 SOT Colgate-Palmolive Award for Student Research Training in Alternative Methods. This award provides students with the opportunity to receive training using in vitro methods or alternative techniques to reduce, replace, or refine the use of animals in toxicological research. Ms Shimpi is pictured at the right.
Syngenta Fellowship Award in Human Health Applications of New Technologies
The SOT Awards Committee has named Alok Ranhan, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, as the 2015 SOT Syngenta Fellowship Award Recipient in Human Health Applications of New Technologies. This award provides mode-of-action research funding to a third-year (or later) graduate student or 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
This year 70 graduate students will receive Graduate Student Travel Support to attend the Society of Toxicology 54th Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. SOT Graduate Travel Support is provided, in part, with generous contributions from Battelle Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and 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 and 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 Scholars, For Scientists, For Undergraduate Students, and their Advisors, etc.). You may also 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.