T-CAIREM: Conference travel funding to Haifa, Israel

The Technion Israel Institute of Technology has invited T-CAIREM to send up to three U of T faculty members to attend the Computational & Cancer Genomics Conference taking place in Haifa, Israel, on December 14 - 15, 2022.  

T-CAIREM will provide travel grants up to $5,000 to the selected applicants to attend the conference and collaborate with researchers at Technion.

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology was judged the number one university in Europe in the field of Artificial Intelligence by CSRankings.

We encourage all interested T-CAIREM members who are aligned with the objectives and eligibility criteria below to apply. 

Objectives

• Selected faculty members will deliver a keynote address at the conference and participate in relationship-building meetings with Technion faculty on behalf of T-CAIREM.

• During their Technion visit, selected faculty members will develop collaborations that lead to advancements in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medicine and encourage clinical translation.

• Faculty members will receive up to $5,000 CAD as a travel grant to cover conference-related travel, housing, and expenses.

Eligibility

• Applicants must be T-CAIREM members.

• Applicants must hold a University of Toronto faculty appointment.

• Priority will be given to faculty members who conduct research in computational cancer genomics

• Preference will be given to faculty members who have developed solutions with high potential for clinical translation and commercialization.

The deadline to apply is: October 7, 2022