Travel Awards – International Course on Antibiotics and Resistance (ICARe)
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire with Unit
Memorial Deadline: Thursday 10th, May 2018
External Deadline: Tuesday 15th, May 2018
Description
III will provide three travel awards in 2018-2019 for early-career scientists – post-doctoral fellows, post-health professional degree fellows and investigators – to attend the International Course on Antibiotics and Resistance (ICARe) from October 6 to 14, 2018 at Les Pensières, Annecy, France.
ICARe was conceived by an international group of thought leaders from the Institut Pasteur, Harvard Medical School, McMaster University, biotech, diagnostic, and pharma industry, and teaching hospitals. The faculty is composed of 35 internationally recognized scientists and physicians who have made important contributions to antibiotic development, and infectious diseases and resistance management. Faculty will be in residence for a minimum of 2 days and accessible for informal interactions. Graduates will emerge with a state-of-the-art understanding of existing antibiotics: modes of action, pharmacology, toxicology, mechanisms of resistance, impact of antibiotics on human and other ecologies, current approaches for mining chemical space for antimicrobial activity, the process of advancing hits to leads, the application of next generation nucleic acid-based technologies for antibiotic discovery and resistance detection, and perhaps, most importantly, training and experience in thinking creatively and innovatively about solutions to the problem. The course aims to build an international cadre of collaborative, well networked, and highly trained specialists.
This course is opened to any eligible candidate from any country including Canada. The top three selected Canadians will be awarded a travel award of $3,300.
For additional details, please visit CIHR’s website.