BNORC Travel Award Program
The mission of the NIDDK-funded Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center (BNORC) is to facilitate and support the conduct of cutting edge basic and translational research in the fields of nutrition and obesity science in the Boston area. BNORC’s travel award program provides partial support (up to $1000 each) twice a year to early career investigators (including trainees) working in the area of nutrition or obesity research to attend a conference or meeting.
This opportunity is open to trainees including graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and postdoctoral associates.
Eligibility:
- Trainees must work in the lab of and/or be mentored by a BNORC member. Please refer to the list of current members.
- Trainees must be presenting (or applying to present) an abstract at the meeting (oral and/or poster).
The February 2020 cycle is closed. Individuals who submitted requests will be notified with funding updates.
For additional information, please contact Donna Gibson, Center Administrator.
Travel Grant Awardees: 2019-2020
Thiago Batista, PhD, Research Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: C. Ronald Kahn
Meeting: Keystone Symposia, Diabetes: Glucose Control and Beyond
Julie Gervis, MS, PhD Student
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Alice Lichtenstein
Meeting: Epi|Lifestyle 2020, American Heart Association
Eliza Greiner, Graduate Student
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Gorica D. Petrovich
Meeting: Society for Neuroscience
John Griffin, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Andrew Greenberg
Meeting: Obesity Week – The Obesity Society
Liya Kerem, MD, MSc, Third Year Clinical and Research Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Elizabeth Lawson
Meeting: Obesity Week – The Obesity Society
Benjamin Kugler, MS, Graduate Student/Research Assistant
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Kai Zou
Meeting: NHLBI Mitochondrial Biology Symposium
Danielle Lafferty, Graduate Student
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Gorica D. Petrovich
Meeting: Society for Neuroscience
Jennifer Lee, PhD, Instructor in Medicine
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Barbara Kahn
Meeting: Keystone: A Gut-Systemic Perspective for Metabolic Disease
Nabil Rabhi, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Steve Farmer
Meeting: Keystone: Obesity Week – The Obesity Society
Syed Husain Mustafa Rizvi, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Markus Bachschmid
Meeting: Keystone: Society for Redox Biology and Medicine
Shuai Yan, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Evan Rosen
Meeting: Keystone: Keystone Symposia on Metabolism and Cellular Biology
Travel Grant Awardees: 2018-2019
Dominique Ameroso, PhD Candidate
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Maribel Rios
Meeting: Society for Neuroscience
Zhaoli Dai, PhD, Posdoctoral Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: David Felson
Meeting: Nutrition 2018
Justin English, PhD Student
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Valentina Perissi
Meeting: The Obesity Society: Obesity Week
Kimberly Glazer, Doctoral Candidate
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Alison Field
Meeting: Annual Meeting of the Eating Disorders Research Society
Dylan Thomas, MD, Endocrinology Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Caroline Apovian
Meeting: The Obesity Society: Obesity Week
Yixing Yuchi, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Mary-Elizabeth Patti
Meeting: 78th Scientific Sessions, ADA
Travel Grant Awardees: 2017-2018
Yoav Livneh, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Brad Lowell and Mark Andermann
Meeting: Winter Conference on Brain Research
Nabil Rabhi, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Steve Farmer
Meeting: Cell Symposia: Metabolic Disease Therapies
Anna Santoro, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Barbara Kahn
ADA Scientific Sessions 2018
Dylan Thomas, MD, Endocrinology Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Nawfal Istfan
Meeting: Obesity Week 2017
Travel Grant Awardees: 2016-2017
Samantha Berger, Graduate Student
JM USDA Human Nutrition Research Center, Tufts University
Meeting: Obesity Week 2016
Paul Greer, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Meeting: Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
Sara Keefer, Graduate Student
Boston College
Meeting: Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
Cho Low, Graduate Student
Tufts University
Meeting: Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
Yael Mandelblat-Cerf, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Meeting: Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior
Hyun Cheol Roh, PhD,
Postdoctoral Fellow Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Meeting: Obesity and Adipose Tissue Biology
Yoav Livneh, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Meeting: Winter Conference on Brain Research
Nabil Rabhi, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University School of Medicine
Meeting: Cell Symposia: Metabolic Disease Therapies
Anna Santoro, PharmD, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Meeting: ADA Scientific Sessions
Dylan Thomas, MD
Endocrinology Fellow, Boston University
Sponsor: Nawfal Istfan
Meeting: Obesity Week (2017)