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Awards by national societies for Masters or PhD students or postdoctoral fellows range up to 1,200 EUR, and HUPO matches the money provided by the national/regional society by up to 40%. The Canadian National Proteomics Network contributes 500 CND per applicant. Other listed contributors include the Australasian Proteomics Society (2,000 AUD), Austrian Proteomics and Metabolomics Society (350 EUR), Belgian Proteomics Association (500 EUR), Brazilian Proteomics Society (320 USD), British Society for Proteome Research (600 GBP), European Proteomics Association (500 EUR), French Proteomics Society (500 EUR), German Society for Proteome Research (500 EUR), and Hong Kong Proteomics Society (4,000 HKD).
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Masters students, PhD students, and PhD graduates with less than 5 years since graduation. Must have submitted and had accepted an abstract for the Congress AS THE PRESENTER. Must come from a country WITHOUT a national society providing travel support to attend the Congress — the award exists to maximize geographic representation and diversity.
TBD 2027 (2026 pattern: HUPO's May 2026 Congress update ran a combined 'Call for Abstracts & Travel Awards' for HUPO 2026; the specific 2026 travel-award closing date was not published in search results. 2024 pattern: applications closed in the spring with recipients informed at the beginning of July.)
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Curriculum Vitae (maximum 2 pages); a personal statement describing how the award would further the applicant's professional development in the field of proteomics; proof of status (e.g., university document or statement from a supervisor or senior colleague). Awardees are selected by the HUPO Core Organizing Committee (2025 wording) / a HUPO committee (2024 wording) based on the quality of the submitted abstract.
Reserved for applicants from countries with no national/regional society travel-support scheme — this excludes Canadian applicants, who are instead served by the Canadian National Proteomics Network stream (see next award). Travel awards are paid as REIMBURSEMENT after the congress. Applicant must be the presenting author on the accepted abstract.
Dates: September 27 - October 1, 2026. 2027: TBD (the 26th Annual World Congress is listed for 2027 without a confirmed city or dates)
Location: Singapore
Research match: Moderate-to-strong adjacent match. HUPO is the proteomics counterpart to the metabolomics societies and is the venue for multi-omics integration — Wishart's multi-omics and cancer-biomarker work, and the MarkerDB/MiMeDB biomarker-database line, sit squarely in the clinical-proteomics-plus-metabolomics overlap. HUPO 2026 includes a dedicated Bioinformatics Hub with a call for sessions on open challenges and collaborative initiatives in proteomics bioinformatics, which is the natural fit for a database/tool developer. Weaker fit for the NMR, biosensor and structural-biology arms of his program.
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CBH CIRCLE is an Affiliate Partner of the Canadian Bioinformatics Hub.