Tony B. Travel Award

27-29 May 2024

CCIB - International Barcelona Convention Center

Barcelona, Spain

Tony B. Travel Award

This annual travel grant program provides funding for the SLAS International Conference and Exhibition and the SLAS Europe Conference and Exhibition for students, graduate students, post-doctoral associates, and junior faculty with less than four years in their first academic appointments. Those who have completed undergraduate and/or graduate school and are within the first five years of their professional career are also eligible.

The submission period is now closed.

Submission Rules

An applicant must be the primary author of a submitted abstract and must present his/her research in either a poster or oral (podium) session at the digital conference. Submitted award applications are reviewed by members of the Tony B. Travel Award selection panel and are based on multiple factors, including but not limited to:

Quality of the abstract
The relevance of the research to the SLAS Europe 2024 conference
Statement of the value of the conference
Qualifications of the applicant

Award Benefits

The award covers the following:

Complimentary SLAS Premier Membership for one year
Full conference registration
Travel stipend including shared hotel accommodations (up to 3 nights) and airfare or trainfare.
Invitation to be featured on the SLAS podcast, New Matter: Inside the Minds of SLAS Scientists
Mentorship opportunity through SLAS Mentor Match Program

Multiple applicants from a single research group are allowed to apply. However, such applicants should understand that award application reviewers may prioritize the applications so that only one individual per investigator's research group receives an award. This decision will be based on funding availability and the criteria listed above.

This award is non-transferrable. It may only be applied to travel and lodging for this specific conference.

Who is Tony B.?

The Tony B. Travel Award honors Tony Beugelsdijk, Los Alamos National Laboratory, an Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) co-founder who passed away in August 2009. Tony played a very inspirational and instrumental role in laboratory robotics and made significant contributions to ALA, the former LabAutomation conference and exhibition, and the scientific community as a whole. We are honored to remember him through a program that recognizes up-and-coming researchers who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in laboratory science and technology.

Interested in applying? Hear from last year's Tony B. Travel Award recipients as they talk about their research, their experience presenting in Boston and how SLAS has supported them in their careers.