Travel Grants

Young Investigator Travel Awards will be awarded to those who apply for them during the abstract submission process.

American Transplant Congress will grant a number of travel awards to assist young investigators to attend the joint meeting. The award is designed to help off-set the expense to attend the meeting. Therefore, you must attend the meeting in order to receive the award. If you are selected for an award but do not attend the meeting, you will forfeit the monies of the award. To be eligible for an award, an individual must be a trainee and as such must be within two (2) years completion of their training and/or fellowship, in a program in which either an ASTS or AST member is associated. Awardees will be selected from the pool of eligible applicants based upon the abstract's degree of excellence as determined by the Joint Planning Committee. To apply for these awards, check the appropriate checkboxes and complete the award forms in the submission program.

A supporting letter must be uploaded on the Questionnaire page of the Submission Program. This letter must be signed by the applicant's Training Program Director verifying that the award applicant is indeed a young investigator. Authors will not be considered for a travel award if the required letter is not uploaded. The award applicant MUST be the presenting author. No exceptions will be made.

Those who applied for Travel Awards will be notified of their acceptance in March, 2012.