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MARC Travel Awards announced for the 2011 Society for Leukocyte Biology Meeting

July 20th, 2011

FASEB MARC (Minority Access to Research Careers) Program has announced the travel award recipients for the 2011 Society for Leukocyte Biology (SLB) Meeting in Kansas City, MO from September 22-24, 2011. These awards are meant to promote the entry of underrepresented minority students, postdoctorates and scientists into the mainstream of the basic science community and to encourage the participation of young scientists at the 2011 SLB Meeting.

Awards are given to poster/platform presenters. This year MARC conferred 3 awards totaling $4,950.

The FASEB MARC Program is funded by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health. A primary goal of the MARC Program is to increase the number and competitiveness of underrepresented minorities engaged in biomedical and behavioral research.

The following poster/platform presenters have been selected to receive a FASEB MARC Travel Award:

Manuel Galvan, Ph.D., Indiana University School of Medicine [AAA member]

Katherine Haynes, North Carolina Central University

Ashley Triplett, University of Louisville [AAI member]

Provided by Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

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