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Applications are open for SFRR-Europe Visiting Fellowships for 2024. Awards of up to €2000 will be made to Early Career Investigators to cover travel and accommodation expenses for a short research stay [minimum 3 weeks] in another European laboratory, to be completed before June 2025. The number of awards made will be determined by the quality of the submitted proposals.

Applicants should submit a single PDF containing:

1. a brief summary of the research project (maximum one A4 page) stating the expected duration, budget, rationale and expected outcomes from the short stay.

2. CV (maximum 2 A4 pages) of the applicant including date of birth, date of PhD award (if applicable), current position and a list of publications.

3. abbreviated CVs of both the home and proposed host supervisors (maximum 2 A4 pages each).

4. a letter from the host institution agreeing to host and provide facilities for the visitor.

Previous awardees of Early Career Researcher (ECR) Fellowships or Visiting Fellowships are not eligible.

Applications should be submitted by logging-in to the SFRR-E intranet (https://intranet.sfrr-europe.org) and selecting the call for SFRR-E VISITING FELLOWSHIPS 2024. Applications which do not adhere to the above requirements, will not be considered.

The deadline for applications is 15 May 2024, and the results will be announced at the General Assembly of SFRR-E, held during the SFRR-Europe Annual Meeting in Istanbul, 4-7 June 2024.

Requirements for the applicant:

• Under 35 years of age and without a permanent university position

• Member of SFRR-Europe

• Presentation of a brief written report, and details of expenditure, to the SFRR-Europe Executive one month after the research visit. The report may be posted on the SFRR-Europe website.

Requirements for the supervisors at the home and host institutions:

• Both the home and host supervisors must be members of SFRR-Europe

We are inviting the submission of symposia proposals and nominations for the following SFRR-E honorary lectures to be presented at the SFRR-E Meeting 2024 “From Molecules to Tissues: Redox Biology in Action”, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey on the 5^th - 7^th June 2024.

Conference website: https://redoxistanbul2024.com

• SFRR-E Annual Award Lecture
• SFRR-Europe Basic Science Award Lecture
• SFRR-Europe Clinical Science Award Lecture
• SFRR-E Catherine Pasquier Memorial Lecture
• SFRR-E Leopold Flohé Redox Pioneer Young Investigator Award

Only current members of SFRR-E are able to submit symposium proposals or nominations for special lectures, and must login into the member area of the SFRR-E website intranet.sfrr-europe.org and select the relevant option "Call for symposia for SFRR-E Istanbul Meeting 2024" or “Call for Honorary Lectures for SFRR-E Istanbul Meeting 2024” in the menu on the left.

Symposia proposals and lecture nominations should be submitted before or by the deadline of 6^th October 2023 as a PDF file using the word templates available when you log in to the member area of the SFRR-E website. Please find enclosed the guidelines for these honorary lectures.

An International Scientific Advisory Board will evaluate all proposals and nominations and the SFRR-E Executive will then select those with the highest rankings.

Thank you for your active collaboration with SFRR-E.

We are excited to announce the new recipients of the SFRR-E Honorary Lecture Awards, which will be presented during the Annual meeting, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey from 5-7 June, 2024. Congratulations to the awardees!

SFFR-E Annual Award Lecture
Anna Maria Cuervo
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States
Title: Selective autophagy in the fight against aging and age-related diseases

SFRR-E Basic Science Award Lecture (Sponsored by Elsevier)
Kelvin Davies
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Title: The Redox Biology of Adaptive Homeostasis

SFFR-E Clinical Science Award Lecture (Sponsored by SFRR-E and OCC)
Thomas Michel
Harvard University, USA
Title: Novel chemogenetic/transgenic models of tissue-specific oxidative stress

Catherine Pasquier Award Lecture
Eduardo Fuentes-Lemus
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Title: Macromolecular crowding in the context of redox biology: effects on protein oxidation and aggregation

Leopold Flohe Award Lecture
Jose Luis Garcia Giménez
Universitat de Valencia, Spain
Title: When epigenetics meets the redox regulation and signaling

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Earlier this year, the Society for Free Radical Research Europe has introduced a new subcommittee dedicated to early career researchers, the ECR Subcommittee. The Subcommittee aims to create a vibrant ECR community within the SFRR-E devoted to young investigators' education and visibility.
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