Memorial Travel Award Program
The AASLD Foundation Memorial Travel Award Program was created to allow individuals to be honored by naming travel awards after them. These awards can be topic-specific, and the recipient(s) will be selected from the abstracts submitted for presentation at The Liver Meeting®.
Funding for these awards comes from donations to the AASLD Foundation in support of the award. Total funding necessary for each award is $3,000 ($2,500 for the award, $500 administrative costs). All funding must be received by May 1 of the year the first recipient is selected for presentation during The Liver Meeting®.
For more information on this program, contact Julie Wolfe, Development Director of the AASLD Foundation, at 703-299-9766 or jwolfe@aasld.org.
Current Travel Awards
Current Travel Awards
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The Professor Margit Hamosh Travel Award
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The Maribel Rodriguez-Torres Travel Award
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The Leonard B. Seeff Award for Outstanding Research by an Early Career Investigator
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The Rosalyn and Leo Fried Memorial Travel Award
The Professor Margit Hamosh Travel Award
The goal of the award is to encourage research on hepatocellular carcinoma; the award will be presented to a fellow or junior investigator within three years of their appointment who submits the most outstanding abstract on hepatocellular carcinoma research for The Liver Meeting®.
Award: $2,500; 1 award available.
The Maribel Rodriguez-Torres Travel Award
The goal of the award is to encourage early career investigators in the area of Hepatitis C. The award will be given to either a fellow or a junior faculty (within three years of their first faculty position) submitting the most promising abstract in Hepatitis C Therapy to The Liver Meeting ®. In order to be eligible, the abstract must be selected for presentation and the recipient must be the presenting author. Applicants must reside in a Latin-American country (Central America, South America, or the Caribbean Islands) or Spain at the time of abstract submission. Preference will be given to female applicants.
Award: $2,500; 1 award available.
The Leonard B. Seeff Award for Outstanding Research by an Early Career Investigator
The goal of the award is to encourage hepatology research; the award will be presented to the early career investigator presenting the most promising basic or clinical research, as determined by the Scientific Program Committee, at The Liver Meeting ®. To be eligible for this award, MD applicants must be within four years of completing clinical fellowship training (or equivalent), and PhD applicants must be within 10 years of the receipt of their research degree. The award recipient is expected to present the selected research at The Liver Meeting®. Applicants must be a member of AASLD.
Award: $2,500; 1 award available.
The Rosalyn and Leo Fried Memorial Travel Award
These two awards recognize and encourage early career investigators from Israel and from countries in the Middle East to present their research at The Liver Meeting®. In order to be eligible, the abstract must be selected for presentation and the recipient should be the presenting author. MD applicants must be within four years of completing clinical fellowship training (or equivalent), and PhD applicants must be within 10 years of the receipt of their research degree.
Award: $2,500 each; (2 awards available)
- Applicants for the first award must reside in Israel at the time of abstract submission
- Applicants for the second award must reside in one of the WHO-defined Middle Eastern Countries on the following list:
- Afghanistan
- Jordan
- Bahrain
- Oman
- Kuwait
- Pakistan
- Tunisia
- United Arab Emirates
- Egypt
- Libya
- Somalia
- Djibouti
- Lebanon
- Qatar
- Yemen
- Saudi Arabia
- Morocco
All abstract award recipients are expected to attend the Awards Reception at The Liver Meeting®.