Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting applications for two 2020 Travel Awards for PhD researchers to attend an international conference of their choice in 2020. The awards will consist of 800 Swiss Francs each, and may be used for registration, travel, or accommodation.

The awardee will be determined by the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Stephen B. Liggett.

Eligibility:

–– Applicants obtained their PhD no earlier than 2014 (exclusive of career interruption, e.g., parental leave or carers leave).
–– Applicants must present their own, original work as a poster or oral presentation at the conference for which the travel award application is being made. Applicant should have a draft of the abstract/paper (oral or poster) to be presented at the nominated conference (and, preferably, an acceptance letter from the conference).

Candidates’ Requirements:

–– A copy of current CV (basic personal information, publications, received awards, a justification on why they should receive the award, etc.).
–– A one-page outline of current and planned future research.
–– The abstract to be presented (oral or poster) at the nominated conference (list the name); a paragraph statement on the importance of the proposed conference to their research in the personalized medicine area.
–– A letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head.

Please apply online before 20 December 2019. The winners will be announced in January 2020.

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of JPM, I am pleased to announce the Best Paper Award in JPM 2018.

S. Pamela K. Shiao, James Grayson, Chong Ho Yu, Brandi Wasek, Teodoro Bottiglieri. Gene Environment Interactions and Predictors of Colorectal Cancer in Family-Based, Multi-Ethnic Groups. J. Pers. Med. 2018, 8, 10.

Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/8/1/10

We believe the above paper represents a valuable contribution to JPM and the scientific literature. Warmly congratulate Dr. S. Pamela K. Shiao and her group. They will receive a 500 Swiss Francs (CHF) cash prize.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Stephen B. Liggett
University of South Florida College of Medicine,
Tampa, USA

Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426; CODEN: JPMOB3) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal on personalized medicine published quarterly online by MDPI.

As Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM), on behalf of the Travel Award 2017 Committee, it is my pleasure to announce that the winner of the 2017 JPM Travel Award is Chiara Fabbri. Chiara Fabbri graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 2011 and she is now finishing her training as a psychiatrist at Bologna University and writing her Ph.D. thesis.
She performs research on the genetics of mood disorders and pharmacogenetics of antidepressants at Bologna University and she spent one year as visiting researcher at the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) King’s College London. She has co-authored around 50 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals. WINNER 2017 TRAVEL AWARD
On behalf of JPM, she will be awarded 800 Swiss Francs to attend the 17th World Congress of Psychiatry that will be held 8–12 October 2017 in Berlin, Germany. There, she will present her work on “Pharmacogenomic meta-analysis of antidepressant treatment response in GENDEP and STAR*D” as an oral presentation in the symposium entitled Pharmacogenomics of Mood Disorders.

As Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM), on behalf of the Travel Award 2016 Committee, it is my pleasure to announce that the winner of the 2016 JPM Travel Award is Claudia Ojeda Granados.
Claudia Ojeda-Granados is a third-year Ph.D. student in Molecular Biology in the Medicine Doctoral Program at the Universidad of Guadalajara, Mexico. She has been involved in both basic and clinical protocols regarding nutrigenetics and nutritional intervention therapy in patients with liver disease since 2013 and she has already co-authored more than ten publications in the field. On behalf of JPM, she will be awarded 800 Swiss Francs to attend the HGM2017 “From Genomics to Therapy” that will be held 5–7 February 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. There, she will present her work on “Nutritional Genomic Therapy as an Intervention Strategy in Patients with Obesity from West Mexico”.