Fellowship & Stipends

Fellowship for symposia and conferences
Conference participants (graduate students or post docs) whose abstracts are accepted for presentation may be eligible for fellowship for attending CSH Asia conferences and symposia. Fellowship decisions will be made by the organizers based on the merit of scientific quality. The winners will receive the fellowship in a value ranging from $100 to $500. The results will be announced during the conference and published at the website.

Congratulations to the following students! Their presentations (short talks or posters) are selected for a CSHA fellowship

High Throughput Biology:
Peter Sims, Harvard University, USA
Lingling Sun, National Institute of Biological Sciences, China
Shouneng Peng, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences(SIBS), China

New Advances in Optical Imaging of Live Cells and Organisms:
Xiaowei Chen, Technical University Munich, Germany
Daisuke Oikawa, Gunma University, Japan
Peng Zou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Membrane Proteins: Structure & Function:
Chunfeng Zhao, University of Calgary, Canada
Steffen Wolf, PICB Shanghai, China
Yuxin Mao, Cornell University, USA

Plant Cell and Developmental Biology:
Jing Zhang, VIB / Universiteit Gent, BELGIUM
Jinbo Shen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG
Huei-Jing Wang, Academia sinica, Taiwan

Infection & Immunity(Sponsored by Nature Immunology):
Luis Ferreira Moita, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, PORTUGAL
Runyi Adeline Lam, NGS/NUS, SINGAPORE
Emma Lefrançais, CNRS-Paul Sabatier Toulouse III University, France

Protein Structure-Based Drug Design:
Jing Deng, East China University of Science and Technology, China
Rohit Vashisht, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India
Moshe Ben-David, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Protein Homeostasis in Health & Disease :
Shoshiro Hirayama, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Maria Armakola, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Developmental Control of Sex, Growth and Cellular Fate :
Yuka Fujimoto, IMEG, Kumamoto University, Japan
Jun Luo, Nanjing University, China

Assembly, Plasticity, Dysfunction and Repair of Neural Circuits:
Chun Xu, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland
Rei Morikawa, Osaka Bioscience Institute, Japan
Kaiyu Wang, Institute of Neuroscience, CAS, China

Joint CSH Asia/ISSCR Conference on Cellular Programs & Reprogramming:
Huaqi Jiang, UTSW Medical center, USA
Cheng-Ran Xu, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Bongju Park, University of Seoul, South Korea

Design & Synthesis of Biological Systems (Supported by Biotechnology Journal and Nature Chemical Biology):
Viktor Stein, University of Queensland, Australia
Dan Tang, Tsinghua University, China
Jina Yang, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea

Bioinformatics of Human and Animal Genomics:
Junko Tsuji, Universtiy of Tokyo, JAPAN
Jingyi (Jessica) Li, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Stipends for summer schools
Summer school applicants are invited to apply for partial stipends to offset tution, room and board costs. Funding may be earmarked for students originating from certain geographical regions. Interested applicants should prepare a written request for stipend support along with the other documents required for summer school application; these documents MUST be uploaded simultaneously to the CSH Asia server at the time of application [we cannot guarantee that stipend requests sent to CSH Asia separately will be included with the application].

Summer school stipend decisions will be communicated to successful applicants at the time of offer.