MODR Trainee Conference Bursary

MODR Trainee Conference Bursary Guidelines

McMaster’s Centre for Metabolism, Obesity and Diabetes Research (MODR) is delighted to announce the initiation of the MODR Trainee Conference Bursary. This bursary, with a value of up to $500 per student, supports MODR trainees and their supervisors with registration costs and abstract submission fees associated with attending conferences to present their research.

Who can apply?

All MODR trainees. A MODR trainee is a McMaster student, either undergrad, MSc, PhD or Post doctoral fellow that is supervised by a MODR investigator.

Eligibility requirements:

• A substantial recorded attendance at seminars in the 2023-2024 academic year
• The applicant must be the presenting author of a poster or oral presentation at the conference they plan to attend/have attended
• Conferences must occur within the time frame of May 1, 2023, to April 30, 2024

 How to apply:

Please send the following information to modr@mcmaster.ca by April 5, 2024, with your MODR supervisor cc’d:

• Conference registration receipt
• Conference program
• Proof of acceptance of conference presentation (This should include correspondence from event organizers showing acceptance of presentation, presenter name, date, type of presentation, and title of presentation)
• Presentation Title/ Presentation Abstract and author list

All conference bursary applications are reviewed by the MODR Educational Programming Committee and MODR Co-Directors.