U.S. Chinese Anti-Cancer Association (USCACA美中抗癌协会)-Asia Fund for Cancer Research (AFCR, 亚州癌症研究基金会)2015 Scholar Awards

The USCACA and AFCR are pleased to invite nominations for the USCACA-AFCR 2015 Scholar Awards.

The Awards will recognize four to five junior Chinese investigators on the basis of significant contributions in translational or clinical cancer research.
Candidacy is open to all Chinese researchers who were trained in US and subsequently returned to China during the last two years, and are currently active in translational and clinical cancer research in China Selection of the award will be made on the basis of the candidate's meritorious achievements both during training in the US and after returning to China. The winners will receive an Award Recognition Plaque and an honorarium of $1,000 US dollars.

The Awards will be presented in a ceremony during the 4th Guangzhou International Symposium on Oncology (http://gzoenglish.sysucc.org.cn), November 5-7, 2015, Guangzhou, China.

Nominations may be made by either an USCACA member or nonmember and should be submitted via e-mail attachments to Dr. Wei Zhang, the Scholarship Selection Committee of USCACA at wei.zhang1@northwestern.edu no later than 12:00 midnight of September 30, 2015, US Eastern Standard Time

The following materials must be submitted:
A nomination letter addressed to the Selection Committee, concisely
describing the candidate's achievements for which he or she is being
nominated (one page)
2. Candidate's curriculum vitae, including a complete list of his or her publications
3. Outline of the candidate’s research plan (one page)
4. Supporting letters: one from the US mentor and one from current
director/chair/dean in China.

The deadline for nomination is September 30, 2015

To learn more and to join USCACA, please visit: http://www.uscaca.org
To learn more about AFCR, please visit: https://afcr.org.hk/