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Travel Grant Application

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The DGMB has decided to award travel fellowships for doctoral students and young postdocs attending the annual meeting of the DGMB and the biennial Matrix Biology Europe conference. Furthermore, we support attendance at matrix-relevant international meetings (e.g. GRC Collagens, Cartilage). The requirements are:

  • You are an active doctoral student or a postdoc (up to two years) in a connective tissue group.
  • You are a member of the DGMB at the time of application.
  • You plan to actively participate (poster/oral presentation) in the meeting.

If you fulfil these criteria please enclose the abstract to be presented at the meeting with a brief one page CV including degrees, oral presentations, awards and list of publications and send it to us.

Application Deadlines

  • DGMB 2026: Feb 28th, 2026
  • MBE 2026: Apr 30th, 2026

Decision for other matrix-relevant meetings are made 2x per year:

  • Spring: May 31st
  • Autumn: Sept 30st

Awardees are notified the latest 3 weeks before the tentative conference.

    Please upload only one file in PDF format which is below 5 MB of file size. We cannot consider applications which are not complete.

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