Description: The Teratology Society makes available a limited number of travel awards in an effort to assist female and minority graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in attending the Teratology Society Annual Meetings. These awards, in the amount of $500, are designed to help defray a portion of the travel costs to the meeting and will be presented to awardees during the Banquet at the annual meeting. It is further hoped that these awards will help to encourage more women and minorities to enter the field of teratology. The awards are made possible by generous support from the Eli Lilly Company.

Eligibility requirements: Female or minority applicants should be enrolled in a program leading to a graduate degree in a field of study related to teratology or should be postdoctoral fellows in such a field and should intend to attend the Teratology Society Annual Meeting. Applicants wishing to be considered for an Eli Lilly Women and Minority Travel Award must apply for the award when submitting their abstract for presentation at the Annual Meeting. Abstracts are submitted electronically using an on-line submission system. During the submission process you will be instructed to check the boxes for the awards you wish to apply for and given instructions on how to provide the required additional information to the chair of the Student Affairs Committee. The following information must be submitted in order to be considered for this award:

1. A letter of application from their research advisor or director, which includes a statement to verify that the applicant meets the women/minority qualifications of this award, and
2. (optional) Additional introduction, methods, results, discussion, and/or up to two pages of illustrative materials can accompany the abstract.

Judging process: Applications will be judged by the Student Affairs Committee, based on the materials submitted as requested above under "Eligibility."

Past recipients

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2009
Amber Rinderknecht, Ph.D., University of Rochester
Ava Schlisser, B.Sc., McGill University

2008
Christine P. Curran, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Jin Yan, McGill University

2007
Lyndsay N. Ammon, UC Berkeley, School of Public Health
Maia L. Green, University of Louisville

Award recipient archive