Lectures & Awards

Lectures & Awards

Lectures & Awards

Pew Latin American Fellow Awards

The Pew Charitable Trusts worked through the Foundation for NIH to award grants totaling $225,000 to three postdoctoral fellows at NIH. The Pew Latin American Fellows Program in Biomedical Sciences aims to help develop a generation of highly trained researchers who can stimulate and contribute to the growth of important biomedical research and to foster collaboration between scientists in Latin America and the United States.

Lectures & Awards

The Bernard Osher Foundation National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practitioner Research Career Development Award

This award provides financial support for up to five years of research and career development training for complementary and alternative medicine practitioners. Awardees work under the guidance of an experienced research mentor in the biomedical, behavioral or clinical sciences.

Lectures & Awards, Education & Training

Robert Whitney Newcomb Memorial Lecture

Supported by the Robert Whitney Memorial Fund, this annual lecture is by a recognized expert in neuroscience, who is selected and awarded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke as part of the NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series.

Lectures & Awards

The Robert Whitney Newcomb Memorial Internship Award

To honor Dr. Robert Whitney Newcomb and his experience at NIH as a high school intern, an internship award is made each year by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Lectures & Awards

Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture in Alternative Medicine

The Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture in the Science of Complementary and Alternative Medicine is an annual lecture that brings leading figures in science and medicine to NIH to speak about their perspective on the field of complementary and alternative medicine.

Lectures & Awards

Sayer Vision Lecture and Award

Supported by the Sayer Vision Research Fund, this annual lecture is delivered by a scientist of national or international prominence in a discipline with relevance to vision research.    Past lecturers have included Dr. Martin Friedlander, Dr. Krzysztof Palczewski, Dr. Sally Temple and Dr. Roger Tsien.

Lectures & Awards

Norman P. Salzman Memorial Award and Lecture in Virology

The Norman P. Salzman Award in Virology is given annually each fall to recognize outstanding research accomplishment by a post-doctoral fellow or research trainee working in the field of virology.

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