The number of researchers studying, developing, and using biophotonics tools and technologies all over the world keeps rising steadily. Biophotonics holds many promises to aid in scientific discovery and improve health care through better, faster, less invasive and cheaper diagnostics and therapeutics. At this time of accelerated rates of scientific progress, scientists from academia, industry, and government, clinicians, students, researchers, investors, entrepreneurs, funding agencies, educators, and anybody interested in biophotonics will benefit greatly from networking, communicating and collaborating with others in the community via BiophotonicsWorld.org. The portal is highly focused on biophotonics and hence could be used to enhance the activities of its members and to advance the field.
The portal was initially developed as a side project by the NSF Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology (CBST) headquartered at UC Davis in the US and the Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations (CIPI) in Canada. A recent infusion of funds (NSF grant) allowed CBST to pick up the pace of developing the website. This is still a work in progress, and we welcome your comments and suggestions on how to make BiophotonicsWorld.org as useful as possible.
If you haven't visited the site lately, go now to www.BiophotonicsWorld.org. Update your profile and promote your latest research, publications, and patents to a targeted audience of biophotonics enthusiasts. Invite your colleagues, students, professors to register and become active members of the site. Share images, movies, other resources with the community. Start a forum about a subject of interest to you and the community (it could be about technologies, commercialization, collaborations, expertise, etc). For a more detailed list of what you can do on BiophotonicsWorld.org is under "About".
In closing, here are some grants for international collaborations and/or exchanges.
- NSF 04-035 International Research and Education: Planning Visits and Workshops. Planning visits proposals accepted anytime; workshop proposals deadlines: May 20, Sept. 20, Feb. 20. Awards will support the early phases of developing and coordinating a research and education activity with a foreign partner(s). URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04035/nsf04035.htm
- Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorships (3 - 10 months). Deadline: May 14, 2010. The objective of the awards is to enable distinguished academics based overseas to spend between three and ten months at a UK university, primarily in order to enhance the skills of academic staff or the student body within the host institution. Applications must be made by a member of academic staff, based in a UK university or other higher education institution, who will be responsible for co-ordinating the visit. URL: http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/grants_awards/grants/visiting_professorships/
- German Academic Exchange Service - PhD Research Grant & Research Visit Grant for Faculty. Deadlines: May 15, 2010. PhD Research Grant: Research grants are awarded primarily to highly qualified PhD candidates who are early in their academic/professional careers or to individuals wishing to earn a doctoral degree in Germany. Funding may also be granted to recent PhDs who would like to conduct research. Research Visit Grant for Faculty: DAAD offers grants for one to three months in all academic disciplines to scholars at US and Canadian institutions of higher education to pursue research at universities, libraries, archives, institutes or laboratories in Germany.
... from your friendly colleagues at the BiophotonicsWorld.org development desk
contactus@biophotonicsworld.org
