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AAI Trainee Abstract Award
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This award provides $600 to AAI Trainee members (undergraduate students, graduate students, young professionals, and postdoctoral fellows) whose first-author abstracts submitted to the AAI annual meeting are selected for oral presentation in Major Symposia or Block Symposia.
Monetary awards will be paid by ACH or wire transfer to recipients following the AAI annual meeting, provided that the following conditions are met:
- Attendance at the meeting is mandatory.
- Awardees must present their abstract in a Block Symposium AND a poster presentation. The poster must be displayed on the day of presentation designated in the program, and presenter must be at their poster board on the assigned day and time.
- U.S.-based awardees must submit a completed W9 form to receive the award check. Awardees will be provided instructions for submitting their forms through a secure portal.
- Awardees must make their reservations through the official AAI hotel reservation system onPeak and stay at one of the AAI-designated hotels to receive their award checks.
Only selected candidates will be notified. In most cases this award may not be combined with other awards or grants for the AAI annual meeting. AAI Trainee Abstract Award recipients may receive the AAI Diversity Travel Award, or be second recipients on AAI Laboratory Travel Grants or AAI Undergraduate Faculty Travel Grants, but the maximum funding under these awards will be reduced commensurately by the AAI Trainee Abstract Award amount.
AAI Trainee Abstract Award Recipients
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