IUPS 2013 Congress Travel Program - Birmingham, UK

描述（由申请人提供）：国际生理科学联合会（IUPS）将于2013年7月21日至26日在英国伯明翰举行其大会和第三十七届国际生理科学大会。APS将管理一项旅行补助计划，向合格的科学家提供数量有限的旅行奖励，这些科学家是北美永久居民，可能需要此类援助。APS国际生理学委员会将作为筛选和选择委员会，APS将作为财务代理人并提供旅行补助金。来自传统上属于IUPS美国国家委员会的六个协会的成员将被邀请申请旅行奖励。USNC的六个成员学会包括APS、神经科学学会、普通生理学家学会、微循环学会、生物医学工程学会和综合与比较生物学学会。 自1959年在布宜诺斯艾利斯举行IUPS大会以来，美国物理学会每四年举办一次旅行资助计划，并协助从事生理学研究及其应用的美国科学家参加大会。最近，美国物理学会为2009年在日本京都举行的IUPS大会为美国生理学家管理了一个旅行奖励计划。 美国生理学会（APS）将管理一个旅行补助计划，为有兴趣参加IUPS大会的合格科学家提供数量有限的旅行奖励。将特别重视获得博士学位后15年内的研究人员以及妇女和代表性不足的少数民族科学家。具体目标本申请的具体目标包括：1.通过旅行奖励计划，促进青年科学家的广泛参与，重点是妇女和代表性不足的少数民族; 2.使新的研究人员和学生对旨在了解生理过程和特征的研究产生兴趣; 3.为发展与科学家的协作互动提供机会 来自美国和在美国以外工作的人。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) will hold its General Assembly and the XXXVII International Congress of Physiological Sciences in Birmingham, UK, July 21- 26, 2013. The APS will administer a travel grant program, offering a limited number of travel awards to qualified scientists, who are permanent residents of North America and who may require such assistance. The APS International Physiology Committee will serve as the screening and selection committee, and the APS will act as fiscal agent and award the travel grants. Members from the six societies that have traditionally been part of the US National Committee of IUPS will be invited to apply for travel awards. The six member societies of the USNC include the APS, the Society for Neuroscience, the Society of General Physiologists, the Microcirculatory Society, the Biomedical Engineering Society, and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. The APS has conducted a travel grant program and assisted U.S. scientists engaged in physiological research and its applications to attend Congresses every four years since the IUPS Congress was held in Buenos Aires in 1959. Most recently, the APS managed a travel award program for US physiologists for the IUPS Congress in 2009 in Kyoto, Japan. The American Physiological Society (APS) will administer a travel grant program offering a limited number of travel awards to qualified scientists interested in attending the IUPS Congress. Special emphasis will be given to investigators within 15 years of receiving their doctoral degree and to women and under-represented minority scientists. SPECIFIC AIMS The specific aims of this application include: 1. To promote widespread participation of young scientists with an emphasis on women and under-represented minorities, through a travel award program; 2. To interest new investigators and students in pursuing research designed to understand physiological processes and traits; and 3. To provide opportunities for the development of collaborative interactions with scientists from the United States and those working outside of the United States.