Dear Colleagues,

It is with deepest regret that we have to announce the 2020 Non-Coding RNA Travel Award for travel in 2020 has been postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Applications for 2021 are welcomed and will be made under the description “2020 Non-Coding RNA Travel Awards”.

We are pleased to announce that the application period is now open for the 2020 Non-Coding RNA Travel Award. Applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief of Non-Coding RNA, Prof. George Calin.

The award of 800 Swiss Francs is intended to financially assist the winner in presenting an oral presentation and/or poster at an international academic conference related to non-coding RNA in 2020/2021.

Candidate Requirements:
–– Applicants must be postdoctoral fellows doing research on non-coding RNAs.
–– Applicants must plan to attend an international conference in 2020/2021 to present their research (oral or poster presentation).

Required application documents:
–– Outline of current and planned future research.
–– CV (please include a complete list of publications).
–– The conference you would like to attend (list the conference name and its website) and an abstract of the work you plan to present.
–– A letter of recommendation from your supervisor, research director, or department head confirming your status as a postdoc.

Please submit your documents at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ncrna/awards by 31 March 2021. The winner will be announced on the Non-Coding RNA website by 31 May 2021.

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Non-Coding RNA (ncRNA), it is my great pleasure to announce that the winner of the 2019 ncRNA Travel Award is Mr. Baptiste Bogard, MS. He is a second-year PhD student in Dr. Florent Hubé’s laboratory in the Epigénétique et Destin Cellulaire, CNRS UMR7216, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France. ncRNA will support Mr. Baptiste with 800 Swiss Francs for travel expenses.

Additional details are available here:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ncrna/awards.

Prof. Dr. George A. Calin
Editor-in-Chief

Non-Coding RNA (ISSN 2311-553X) is an open access journal published by MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland. ncRNA maintains a rigorous peer-review and a rapid publication process.

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Non-Coding RNA (ISSN 2311-553X) offered a Best Poster Award at the FASEB SRC meeting “Posttranscriptional Control of Gene Expression: Mechanisms of RNA Decay”, which was held 24–29 June 2018 in Scottsdale, AZ, USA. All attendees with a poster presentation on non-coding RNAs were eligible.

Dr. Anthony Mustoe from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC, USA) is the winner of this award and received a prize of 200 Swiss Francs. Dr. Mustoe showed his findings in a poster presentation entitled “Pervasive Regulatory Functions of Bacterial mRNA Structure Revealed by High-Resolution SHAPE Probing”.

Best Regards,

Non-Coding RNA Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of the Non-coding RNA Journal (ncRNA), on behalf of the Travel Award 2018 Committee, it is my pleasure to announce that the winner of the 2018 ncRNA Travel Award is Dr. Cristian Rodriguez-Aguayo. Dr. Cristian Rodriguez-Aguayo an Instructor at the Department of Experimental Therapeutics, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX. His current research focuses on the understanding of the functional basis and biological mechanism by RBPs and non-coding RNAs promote cancer growth and tumor progression. He has co-authored more than 70 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals, he also has patents and book chapters.

On behalf of ncRNA, Dr. Rodriguez-Aguayo will be awarded 800 Swiss Francs to attend the TAT 2018 – Targeted Anticancer Therapies meeting that will be held 5– 7 March, 2018 in Paris, France. There, he will present his work on “Regulation of hnRNPA1 by microRNAs controls the miR-18a–KRAS axis in chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer”

Prof. Dr. George A. Calin,
Editor-in-Chief