US Partnership Award

The US Partnership Award (USPA) has been set up to promote links with the Biomolecular Simulation community in the USA, particularly with the National Biomedical Computational Resource (NBCR) in San Diego. Over the 4 years of our grant we will be involved in a number of community building activities with our friends in the USA.

interchanging of training activities

This interchanging our training activities will involve CCPB helping to run a track at the NBCR summer school each year and a scientist from the USA running a training workshop for CCPB each year.

In 2009 Dr Nathan Baker ran a training workshop on Electrostatics Calculations as a satellite to the CCPB annual conference. This proved to be a very popular course which was oversubscribed. If you were not able to attend the workshop, details of the lectures and tutorials given can be found here.

CCPB early-stage researcher short visits scheme to the USA

To help promote the exchange of researchers between UK and USA research groups, CCPB is running a new funding scheme for UK-based scientists to carry out research for up to two months in leading laboratories in the USA.

Objectives: The purpose of the award is to give young researchers the chance to learn new techniques in biosimulation, and to expand collaborative activity between UK and USA research groups.

Eligibility: The scheme is open to all UK-based scientists. Priority will be given to those at the postdoctoral and postgraduate levels.

Expenses: The award will cover travel and living expenses up to £2000.

To apply for this award, please email Dr Chris Grindon enclosing:

  • 1 page research proposal
  • 2 page CV
  • Two letters of support, one from your UK supervisor and the other from the laboratory in the USA

Deadline: 1 December 2009

Up to two awards will be made each round. Awardees will be invited to present their research at the CCPB Annual Meeting and to contribute an article to the CCPB Newsletter.

Winners of the 2008-2009 round are Ben Bulheller of the University of Nottingham and Jonathan Fuller of the University of Leeds, click here for more information about the research they intend to carry out.

community building and strategic workshops

As part of the grant we will be holding two workshops involving key researchers from the UK and USA to discuss community building and strategic activities. Details of the first of these workshops will be available soon.