AHMF Travel Scholarship

2008

Applications for the 2008 Travel Scholarship are now open. Download the Guidelines for Applicants and the Application form from the links on the right.

Offered in association with PanBio Diagnostics

Scholarship Guidelines

Scholarship Application

2007

Applications for the 2007 Travel Scholarship have closed. Check this page soon for an announcement of the winner.

2006

The winner of the 2006 AHMF Travel Scholarship is Gillian Scott.

Gillian was awarded the scholarship to attend the 11th international CMV and Betaherpesvirus Workshop at the Universite Paul Sabatiere in Toulouse, France from May 13-17, 2007 and present “The CMV DNA Polymerase Aspartate Triad as an Antiviral Target”. As well as going to the CMV conference Gillian was also able to visit collaborators of the project in Erlangen, Germany and Cambridge, UK, and give a talk to both of these groups on our research (including the poster presentation).

2005

The winner of the 2005 Travel Grant Scholarship is Dr Michelle Giles. She presented A Study of Obstetricians' Knowledge Base for Management of Herpes Virus Infections in Pregnancy in Australia at the 2006 Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology (IDSOG) Annual Meeting 2006 in Monterey, California

Download A National Study of Obstetricians' Knowledge Base of Herpes Viruses in Pregnancy: PDF, 211 KB

2004

Dr Monica Saksena, the 2004 winner, presented her winning paper at the 2005 International STI Conference at the University of Turku in Finland. The paper has also been accepted for publication in Virology.

Download Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Accumulation, Envelopment and Exit in Varicosities and Growth Cones in Mid-Distal Regions of Axons: PDF, 280 KB. Note: You will need to use the "zoom' function on Adobe Reader to clearly read the poster.