Conference Travel Awards

Travel awards, stipends, and grants for students, postdocs, and research associates tied to conferences and meetings.

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LS²/SCNAT Registration Fellowships (Swiss-specific)
ECCB 2026 — 25th European Conference on Computational Biology Europe

Amount: Full conference registration (including tutorials/workshops) — 7 awards

Deadline: May 4, 2026 (closed) — biennial, next cycle 2028

Swiss-based BSc/MSc/PhD students; LS² member; field of study related to ECCB sessions.

EMBO Travel Grants (for selected participants of EMBO-funded events)
EMBO Workshops, EMBO Practical Courses, EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses and EMBO | EMBL Symposia Europe

Amount: Drawn from a per-workshop pool of €5,500 reserved exclusively for travel grants and registration fee waivers; individual caps set per event

Deadline: Apply when submitting your abstract or motivation letter for the specific event

Participants of EMBO Practical Courses, EMBO Workshops, EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses, EMBO | EMBL Symposia; allocated on the basis of abstract quality; any nationality working anywhere in the world eligible.

EMBO accessibility grants
EMBO Workshops, EMBO Practical Courses, EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses and EMBO | EMBL Symposia Europe

Amount: Drawn from a €1,000 per-workshop pool

Deadline: Apply to the event organizers

Participants of EMBO events with accessibility needs.

EMBL Advanced Training Centre Corporate Partnership Programme Travel Grants
EMBO Workshops, EMBO Practical Courses, EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses and EMBO | EMBL Symposia Europe

Amount: Up to €400 (Europe) or €1,000 (outside Europe) for travel + registration

Deadline: Per event (with abstract submission)

Participants of EMBL Courses and Conferences.

National/Regional Society Travel Award with HUPO matching (Canadian route: Canadian National Proteomics Network, CNPN)
HUPO 2026 World Congress — 25th Annual World Congress of the Human Proteome Organization (2027 = 26th Annual World Congress) International

Amount: Awards by national societies for Masters or PhD students or postdoctoral fellows range up to 1,200 EUR, and HUPO matches the money provided by the national/regional society by up to 40%. The Canadian National Proteomics Network contributes 500 CND per applicant. Other listed contributors include the Australasian Proteomics Society (2,000 AUD), Austrian Proteomics and Metabolomics Society (350 EUR), Belgian Proteomics Association (500 EUR), Brazilian Proteomics Society (320 USD), British Society for Proteome Research (600 GBP), European Proteomics Association (500 EUR), French Proteomics Society (500 EUR), German Society for Proteome Research (500 EUR), and Hong Kong Proteomics Society (4,000 HKD).

Deadline: TBD 2027 (2026 pattern: HUPO's May 2026 Congress update ran a combined 'Call for Abstracts & Travel Awards' for HUPO 2026; the specific 2026 travel-award closing date was not published in search results. 2024 pattern: applications closed in the spring with recipients informed at the beginning of July.)

Masters students, PhD students, and PhD graduates with less than 5 years since graduation. Must have submitted and had accepted an abstract for the Congress AS THE PRESENTER. Must come from a country WITHOUT a national society providing travel support to attend the Congress — the award exists to maximize geographic representation and diversity.

IMSF Nico Nibbering Student Travel Award
IMSC 2026 — 26th Biennial International Mass Spectrometry Conference (International Mass Spectrometry Foundation, IMSF) International / Asia-Pacific / South America / Africa

Amount: Minimum grant 100 EUR, maximum grant 500 EUR (per the IMSF call documents). For IMSC 2022 the tiers were EUR 250 for travel from within Europe and EUR 500 for travel from outside Europe.

Deadline: TBD for the 2026 Lyon edition — no IMSC 2026 Nico Nibbering call date appeared in search results. Confirmed 2022 pattern: the deadline for Nico Nibbering Student Travel Awards to IMSC2022 (Maastricht) was extended to August 12th; a parallel IMSS call deadline was extended to November 4th, 2021.

Students. Students must be a member of one of the affiliate societies of the IMSF. The award supports student participation in the International Mass Spectrometry Conference and, in parallel calls, the International Mass Spectrometry School. IMSF describes the scheme as enabling early-career researchers from underrepresented areas to attend international schools and conferences, with need assessed by the IMSF based on accessible public data.

MSSJ (Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan) Travel Grant for IMSC 2026
IMSC 2026 — 26th Biennial International Mass Spectrometry Conference (International Mass Spectrometry Foundation, IMSF) International / Asia-Pacific / South America / Africa

Amount: ¥100,000 JPY (~US$650) — up to 5 grants

Deadline: February 25, 2026 (passed) — IMSC is triennial; next IMSC 2029 in Japan or elsewhere

MSSJ regular or student members (or those in process of joining); ≤35 years old as of April 1, 2026; presenting at IMSC 2026.

NVMS Conference Fund (Netherlands Society for Mass Spectrometry)
IMSC 2026 — 26th Biennial International Mass Spectrometry Conference (International Mass Spectrometry Foundation, IMSF) International / Asia-Pacific / South America / Africa

Amount: Variable; typically covers part of the registration + travel

Deadline: Per cycle

DGMS members; students and postdocs; presenting at the conference.

ISCB-Latin America conference travel fellowships
ISCB-Latin America SoIBio SPBBC Conference on Bioinformatics 2026 International

Amount: not published for 2026 (2018 confirmed pattern: CABANA fellowships up to USD $1,000; PLOS fellowships USD $750 plus complimentary registration)

Deadline: TBD 2026 (2018 pattern: CABANA 15 September, US Army and PLOS 21 September — passed for those editions)

2018 pattern: CABANA fellowships open to scientists at any career stage whose place of work is a Latin American country other than the host country, presenting a poster or talk and registered for at least one tutorial/workshop plus the main conference; PLOS fellowships for a student and a postdoctoral fellow presenting a talk or poster

FASEB MARC travel fellowship (ISCB-Latin America is an eligible ISCB conference)
ISCB-Latin America SoIBio SPBBC Conference on Bioinformatics 2026 International

Amount: not published

Deadline: not published (administered by FASEB)

Minority scientists who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents

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