Travel Awards

Berend Houwen Travel Award

ISLH is delighted to announce that in 2009 we will be able to make available a limited number of travel grants up to the value of US$2,500 to abstract submitters from developing countries (list can be found below). This has been made possible due to the generosity of the Wallace H Coulter Foundation. These travel awards will be known as the Berend Houwen Travel Awards in honor of the founder of ISLH. We respectfully ask you to advise us via email (A.Huisman@umcutrecht.nl or willy.goossens@uz.kuleuven.ac.be) as soon as practical if you are interested in availing of these awards.

The abstract and program chairs will select the Berend Houwen Travel Award grantees based on the merit of each submitted abstract. If you are successful in winning one of these travel awards for 2009 we require the following commitments.

Award Commitments/Requirements

(a) Attendance at the Berend Houwen Travel Awards dinner at ISLH 2009 – note this is paid for and will be held after the poster session on the evening of Tuesday May 12th at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel

(b) That you stay at the conference hotel – Las Vegas Hilton

(c) That you submit receipts for your travel. You will be reimbursed your costs + registration fees.

(d) That upon returning to your country you impart the knowledge learnt at ISLH 2009 to other laboratory hematology personnel in your laboratory and colleagues in neighboring laboratories

(e) That you write brief reports to ISLH at six months and 12 months post the award reporting on progress

We look forward to receiving your application for the 2009 Berend Houwen Travel Awards.

Albert Huisman – ISLH 2009 Abstract Co-Chair
Willy Goossens – ISLH 2009 Abstract Co-Chair

Eligible Countries of Citizenship

Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Angola Argentina Armenia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Belarus Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo, Dem. Rep. Congo, Rep. Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Djibouti Dominica

Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt, Arab Rep. El Salvador Eritrea Ethiopia Fiji Gabon Gambia, The Georgia Ghana Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras India Indonesia Iran, Islamic Rep. Iraq Jamaica Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea, Dem. Rep. Kyrgyz Republic Lao PDR Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia

Libya Lithuania Macedonia, FYR Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia, Fed. Sts. Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Romania Russian Federation Rwanda Samoa

São Tomé and Principe Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa Sri Lanka St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Sudan Suriname Swaziland Syrian Arab Republic Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor-Leste Togo Tonga Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela, RB Vietnam West Bank and Gaza Yemen, Rep. Zambia Zimbabwe

(a) Attendance at the Berend Houwen Travel Awards dinner at ISLH 2009 – note this is paid for and will be held after the poster session on the evening of Tuesday May 12th at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel