Meetings & Events
On-demand policy, funding and advocacy events
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Finding the funds: Science outreach and civic engagement funding opportunities
Discover the many ways you can get your science outreach efforts funded with presentations from organizations that support community science outreach, civic engagement and informal education.
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Finding the funds: NINDS funding and training opportunities
Learn about funding priorities, award opportunities and training grants from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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Finding the funds: NIAMS funding and training opportunities
The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases presents聽its funding priorities, award opportunities and training grants for BMB scientists.
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Finding the funds: DOD funding and training opportunities
Learn about the Department of Defense's funding priorities, award opportunities and training grants.
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Finding the funds: NICHD funding and training opportunities
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development presents its funding priorities, award opportunities and training grants.
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From the bench to the ballot: Stories from scientists who have run for office
This session aims to demystify the path from the bench to the ballot by highlighting the experiences of biochemists and molecular biologists serving in office at various levels. They discuss their career trajectories, their experience running for and serving in office and how they use their scientific background in office.
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Finding the funds: DEAI funding and training opportunities
Learn about DEAI funding and training opportunities at the National Science Foundation and National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
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Finding the funds: Department of Energy funding and training opportunities
Learn about the DOE's Office of Science funding priorities, award opportunities and training grants.
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Finding the funds: NIAID funding and training opportunities
Learn about the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' funding priorities, award opportunities and training grants for postdoctoral scholars and early-career investigators.
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Finding the funds: Private funding and training opportunities
Discover the many ways you can get funded by the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association and Alzheimer鈥檚 Association and learn more about their mission, relevant programs and training opportunities.
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Finding the funds: NIEHS funding and training opportunities
Discover the many ways you can get funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and learn more about the NIEHS's mission, relevant divisions and training opportunities.
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Finding the funds: NIA funding and training opportunities
Learn about the National Institute on Aging and understand the scope of research NIA supports and the many opportunities and resources for investigators, especially in their early career, to collaborate and receive funding from NIA.
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Finding the funds: NIGMS funding and training opportunities
Hear about NIGMS' mission, divisions聽and funding priorities and learn about the many career development fellowships, training聽and research awards that NIGMS offers.
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Finding the funds: NCI funding and training opportunities
Representatives from the National Cancer Institute present its funding priorities, award opportunities and the training grants available to study the molecular and cellular mechanisms that initiate and progress cancer.
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Inside look: Becoming an early-career reviewer at the NIH
This webinar features the ins and outs of the Early Career Reviewer Program at the National Institutes of Health鈥檚 Center for Scientific Review, which gives emerging investigators an inside look at the scientific peer-review process.聽Elyse Schauwecker, a scientific review officer at CSR, talks about the benefits of participating, eligibility, the application process and recent changes.
ASBMB Annual Meeting
Science policy and advocacy for early-career researchers
An introduction to science policy and advocacy for early-career researchers and strategies for communicating with policy makers and the public.
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ASBMB Annual Meeting
Advocacy Town Hall
Members of the Public Affairs Advisory Committee discuss questions on politics, science policy and getting involved in advocacy.
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Virtual event
The pandemic's impact on non-COVID research
It's important for the scientific community to strongly advocate for sustained investment into non-COVID research.
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Women in STEM and gendered challenges
Suzanne Barbour and Martha Cyert talk about policy changes that could ensure gender equity in the sciences.
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COVID-19 interruptions to NIH research
Understanding the funding implications and relief options of the recently passed CARES Act for the scientific community.
Protecting American science 鈥� and the international collaborators critical to its success
A webinar on policies, new and old, to promote research security and protect against foreign influence. With guest speaker Frank H. Wu.
Procuring, administering and negotiating corporate funding for research
This webinar explores how scientists can obtain funding from corporations and other private entities to their support research.
Systems biology research in DOE's Office of Biological and Enviromental Research
Learn about the resources available from the DOE for biochemists and molecular biologists.
Opportunities and challenges in securing private funding for your research
This webinar explores how ASBMB members can obtain funding for basic research from private foundations, including disease-oriented and patient-focused philanthropic groups.
August is for Advocacy training webinar
This webinar will train you to be an effective advocate for the science community.
Grassroots advocacy: How to write an Op-Ed
Learn how to write an op-ed from Tricia Serio of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Cancer Moonshot: The role of the basic researcher
An overview of the Cancer Moonshot at the NIH and ways that basic researchers can engage in this important initiative.
What's in a name? Making the case for postdoc title consolidation
ASBMB members discuss their proposal to standardize how postdoctoral researchers are categorized by human resources offices.
Grassroots Advocacy Network training webinar
Gain skills needed to create change and be an advocate in your region.
The future of the biomedical research workforce
This webinar addresses the future of the biomedical research workforce, and the evolution that is necessary to ensure the enterprise is sustained into the future.
Federal agency funding opportunity webinar 鈥� The National Science Foundation
Discussion of federal agency funding opportunities with NSF program directors.