Travel grants

SIBBM is awarding travel grants (max. 350 EUR per person) to Ph.D. students or postdocs who are SIBBM members with fully paid fees.

Please note that you cannot benefit from a travel grant and a visiting fellowship in the same year.

The travel grant can be used to attend International Conferences, Workshops or Courses related to the research project of the applicant. An application for a travel grant has to be submitted to SIBBM offices prior to the journey and has to contain the following information:

CV and current project of the applicant. If the applicant is part of a PhD program, details of the PhD School in which the applicant is enrolled.

The applications will be reviewed for their scientific contents and eligibility criteria by the SIBBM Executive Committee within 30 days after the deadline.

Title, place and date of the activity (e.g. conference,) the abstract submitted by the applicant, and a letter of acceptance by the Conference/Workshop/Course.

A letter from the PhD Coordinator declaring that the PhD student has no other forms of support for meeting participation.

After the participation, photos and  a report of the activity will be published on the SIBBM site.

Applications should be sent to:  comunicazione@sibbm.org

Application deadlines:
31 March
30 September

YEAR 2026

• Applicant: Viavattene Daniele - University of Turin

  Date: 8-11 September 2026

  Title: Three Decades of JAK-STAT: Foundational Biology to Transformative Medicine

  Place: National Institutes of Health (NIH) 9000 Rockville Pike Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America

• Applicant: Attili Lavinia - University "Roma Tre"

  Date: 23-25 September 2026

  Title: The Uncharted Polyphenol-Spermidine Adduct from DES Extraction and Its Effect on Cellular Models on Neurodegeneration

  Place: Universidad de Deusto, Unibertsitate Etorb., Deusto, 48007 Bilbao, Spain