Awards and Grants
Awards
An Award will be given on a tri-annual basis beginning in 2002, consisting of five thousand US dollars ($5,000) and an appropriate memento. The purpose of the Award is to recognise and encourage outstanding accomplishments in education, research and development activities that are related to the systems and methods used to store, process and retrieve information about chemical structures, reactions and properties. The Award will be presented at a prestigious, relevant conference to be identified prior to each presentation. The recipient of the Award will be asked to give a presentation at the conference.
The Trust Award will be granted to an individual for outstanding achievement in a specific scientific area supported by the Trust. Any individual, except a member of the Trust Awards Committee, may submit one nomination or one seconding letter for the Award in any given year.
Nomination of an individual must be accompanied by the following documentation:
- A letter that evaluates the nominee’s accomplishments and the specific relevant work that is to be recognised
- A biographical sketch, including a statement of academic qualifications, as well as contact information
- At least two seconding letters that support the nomination and provide additional factual information with regard to the scientific achievements of the nominee
If appropriate, a list of the nominee’s publications and/or patents may also be submitted. The CSA Trust Awards Committee, consisting of five members of the Board of Trustees, will examine the applications and decide on the recipient of the Award. If no-one meets the Award criteria, no Award will be given. The Awards Committee will also provide guidance to the recipient of the award regarding the nature of the presentation that he/she will be requested to be given at the conference.
Grants
Applications Invited for CSA Trust Jacques-Émile Dubois Grant for 2009
The Chemical Structure Association (CSA) Trust is an internationally recognized organization established to promote the critical importance of chemical information to advances in chemical research. In support of its charter, the Trust has created a unique Grant Program, renamed in honor of Professor Jacques-Émile Dubois who made significant contributions to the field of cheminformatics. The Trust is currently inviting the submission of grant applications for 2009.
Purpose of the Grants:
The Grant Program has been created to provide funding for the career development of young researchers who have demonstrated excellence in their education, research or development activities that are related to the systems and methods used to store, process and retrieve information about chemical structures, reactions and compounds. A Grant will be awarded annually up to a maximum of three thousand U.S. dollars ($3,000). Grants are awarded for specific purposes, and within one year each grantee is required to submit a brief written report detailing how the grant funds were allocated.
Who is Eligible?
Applicant(s), age 35 or younger, who have demonstrated excellence in their chemical information related research and who are developing careers that have the potential to have a positive impact on the utility of chemical information relevant to chemical structures, reactions and compounds, are invited to submit applications. While the primary focus of the Grant Program is the career development of young researchers, additional bursaries may be made available at the discretion of the Trust. All requests must follow the application procedures noted below and will be weighed against the same criteria.
What Activities are Eligible?
Grants may be awarded to acquire the tools necessary to support research activities, or for travel to collaborate with research groups, to attend a conference relevant to one’s area of research, to gain access to special computational facilities, or to acquire unique research techniques in support of one’s research.
Application Requirements
Applications must include the following documentation:
- A letter that details the work upon which the Grant application is to be evaluated as well as details on research recently completed by the applicant;
- The amount of Grant funds being requested and the details regarding the purpose for which the Grant will be used (e.g. cost of equipment, travel expenses if the request is for financial support of meeting attendance, etc.). The relevance of the above-stated purpose to the Trust’s objectives and the clarity of this statement are essential in the evaluation of the application;
- A brief biographical sketch, including a statement of academic qualifications;
- Two reference letters in support of the application. Additional materials may be supplied at the discretion of the applicant only if relevant to the application and if such materials provide information not already included in items 1-4. Three copies of the complete application document must be supplied for distribution to the Grants Committee.
Deadline for Applications:
Applications must be received no later than October 24, 2008. Successful applicants will be notified by December 19, 2008.
Address for Submission of Applications:
Four copies of the application documentation should be forwarded to: Bonnie Lawlor, CSA Trust Grant Committee Chair, 276 Upper Gulph Road, Radnor, PA 19087, USA. If you wish to enter your application by e-mail, please contact Bonnie Lawlor at blawlor@nfais.org prior to submission.
Previous Grant Winners
Bursary for ‘A Practical Introduction to Chemoinformatics’, Sheffield, UK, June 2008 (joint sponsorship with the Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society)
Laura Guasch, University of Tarragona
Claire Speight, Liverpool John Moores University
CSA Trust Jaques-Emile Dubois Grant 2008
Maciej Haranczyk, a PhD student at the University of Gdansk, Poland is to receive the 2008 CSA Trust grant to travel to Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK, for a 6-week visit.
Bursaries for 8th International Conference on Chemical Structures, Noordwijkerhout, Holland, June 2008
Sheffield Chemoinformatics Research Group, University of Sheffield.
Bursaries for 4th Joint Sheffield Conference on Chemoinformatics, Sheffield, UK, June 2007 (joint sponsorship with the Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society)
Subramanian ArunKumar, University of Reading
Arménio Barbosa, Università Degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Savita Bhutoria, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
Denis Fourches, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg
Divita Garg, European Media Laboratory
Rameshwar Kadam, University of Berne
Sina Kazemi, J.W.Goethe University Frankfurt
Markus Kossner, University of Technology Braunschweig
Lisa Michielan, University of Padova
Gerd Neudert, Philipps-University of Marburg
Ewgenij Proschak, University of Frankfurt
Martin Weisel, University of Frankfurt
CSA Trust Jaques-Emile Dubois Grant 2007
Rajarshi Guha of Indiana University. Rajarshi used his award to attend the Gordon Research Conference on Computer Aided Design in August 2007.
CSA Trust Grant 2006
Krisztina Boda, University of Erlangen
CSA Trust Michael Lynch Award 2005
Prof. Johnny Gasteiger, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
CSA Trust Grant 2005
Dr Val Gillet and Prof Peter Willett, University of Sheffield for student travel costs to the 2005 Chemical Structures Conference, Noordwijkerhout, Holland.
CSA Trust Grant 2004
Dr Sandra Saunders, University of Western Australia
Bursaries for 3rd Joint Sheffield Conference on Chemoinformatics, Sheffield, UK, April 2004
John McNeany, Nottingham University
Yegor Tourleigh, Moscow State University
Ingrid Socorro, Cambridge University
Shane Weaver, Leeds University
CSA Trust Grant 2003
Prashant S. Kharkar is a Senior Research Fellow, Pharmaceutical Division, at the Institute of Chemical Technology, University of Mumbai, Matunga, Mumbai – 400019. Thanks to a Chemical Structure Association Trust grant Prashant was able to attend ‘Bioactive Discovery in the New Millennium’, Lorne, Victoria, Australia in February 2003 to present ‘The Docking Analysis of 5-Deazapteridine Inhibitors of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR)’.
Bursary for ‘A Practical Introduction to Chemoinformatics’, Sheffield, UK, June 2003
Philip Evans, Portsmouth University
CSA Trust Michael Lynch Award 2002
Prof. Peter Willett, University of Sheffield.
CSA Trust Grant 2001
Georgios Gkoutos from the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, was the recipient of a CSA Trust grant in 2001. The money was used to enable him to attend the conference ‘Computational Methods in Toxicology and Pharmacology Integrating Internet Resources’ (CMTPI-2001) in Bordeaux, France, to present part of his work on internet-based molecular resource discovery tools.
Some of the people who have benefited from Awards and Grants in the past include:
Marina Molchanova, Zelinsky Institute, Moscow (graph-theoretical and combinatorial algorithms for structure generation)
Weifan Zheng, University of North Carolina (QSAR and combinatorial chemistry)
Aniko Simon, University of Leeds (chemical literature data extraction)
Eugene Babaev, Moscow State University (computer-assisted synthesis)
Gareth Jones, University of Sheffield (paper on genetic algorithm at ACS National Meeting)
Vladimir Kvasnicka, Slovak Technical University (neural networks for prediction of physiochemical properties)
Rainer Herges, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (reaction databases and quantum chemistry)
Dimitry Lushnikov and Vladimir Shcherbukhin, Zelinski Institute, Moscow (reaction mechanisms and heterocyclic ring transformations)
Some of the recipients of bursaries are:
Dr. Horst Boegel, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Halle, Merseburg, Germany
Dr. Serge Tratch, Chemical Department of the Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Jan Baber, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, UK
Kevin Jernigan, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Mr. M. Karthikeyan, Division of Organic Synthesis, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
Michael Wright, Imperial College, London, UK
Dr Zaneta Nikolovska-Coleska, University of Skopje, Macedonia.