1) IRA TRAVEL BURSARIES
The IRA provides 10 Travel Bursaries of Rs. Two Thousand each to enable its members to attend the Annual Conference-IRACON. Bursaries are available only to those IRA members who present a paper at IRACON. Age limit is 40 years. The bursary may be used for registration fee, travel or maintenance. Applications should be accompanied by the following enclosures: copy of letter of acceptance of abstract, a copy of the abstract itself and date of birth certificate. The decision of the Credentials Committee shall be final. Bursaries may be collected on-site from IRA Stall after submission of Participation Certificate. Last date of applications for travel bursary: 30 September 2008.
Overseas members can apply for the awards and orations of IRA but only work done in India shall be considered. Four complete sets of applications/nominations for Orations/Awards/Bursaries (except DRA Young Investigator Award) may be sent to the Secretary, IRA and one set to the Organising Secretary of the Annual Conference by August 15. For the DRA Young Investigator Award, the applicants may indicate on their abstracts that they wish to be considered for this award. The last date for Travel bursary applications is 30 September. For all other Orations/Awards, the closing date is 15 August.

2) BJD INDIA TRAVEL BURSARIES
50 Travel Bursaries, depending upon the place of work, are also available to young delegates to attend the IRACON and BJD India Convention. Please visit www.bjdindia.org for further details. Last date of applications for BJD India Travel Bursary: 15 October 2008.

Send applications to the Organizing Secretary.

Note: Candidates are eligible to apply for any one of the above two Travel Bursaries.

Mailing Address

Dr Amita Aggarwal (IRA Travel Bursaries) Hon. Secretary IRA Department of Immunology SGPGI, Lucknow 226014 Email: secretary.ira@gmail.com (Four sets)

Dr. Arvind Chopra (IRA & BJD CONVENTION Travel Bursaries) Organizing secretary IRACON 2008 ARCF-Center for Rheumatic Diseases No. 11, Hermes Elegance 1998, Convent Street, CAMP Pune 411001 (One set)