ncRNA Awards

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Non-Coding RNA (ISSN 2311-553X, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ncrna) will offer a travel award for Ph.D. students planning to attend an academic meeting held between May and December 2019.

All attendees planning a poster/oral presentation on non-coding RNAs will be eligible for this award. The applications will be assessed by an evaluation committee presided by George A. Calin (Editor-in-Chief of Non-Coding RNA), and a prize of 800 CHF will be granted on the basis of the presentation’s clarity and scientific significance.

Candidates’ Requirements:

• Abstract submitted to a relevant conference.
• Applicant’s curriculum vitae, along with a one-page statement from the candidate describing his/her research interests and possible career plans.
• Recommendation letter from by his/her mentor.

The award will sponsor Ph.D. students to attend an upcoming meeting, while presenting an abstract as a first author. The stipend will be given on a competitive basis. This grant is restricted to a one-time acceptance. Attending a conference directed to non-coding RNA research will be a plus. The awardee will have to present proof of registration as well as attendance in order to receive the award.

Please present your applications using the online submission system no later than 31 March 2019. The awardee will be announced in April 2019. Please visit our website for additional details: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ncrna/awards

Best regards,

Non-Coding RNA Editorial Office

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