Next Generation Investigator Awards

Meet last year's 2024 Symposium Award Winners:

Are you looking for a chance to share your work at a scientific meeting? Next Generation Investigator Awards are an excellent opportunity for graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, early career industrial scientists, and underrepresented minorities** to meet, network, and participate in exchanging knowledge with industry peers from across the world with waived registration and grants to offset travel expenses.

CASSS is pleased to provide a limited number of Next Generation Investigator* (NGI) for PhD students, post-docs, and early career professionals from around the world for CE Pharm 2025. Selected award winners will be required to give an oral or poster presentation at the Symposium (selected and decided by the Scientific Organizing Committee) or to write a synopsis of CE Pharm 2025 that will be posted on the website for general information. PhD students, post-doctoral fellows, early career industrial scientists, and underrepresented minorities** conducting research in academia or industry throughout the world are eligible.

Why should you apply?

As an award winner, your registration fees will be waived, and you will receive a travel reimbursement disseminated in local currency to offset the cost of travel to the Symposium. Stipend amount is determined by distance traveled. This is an excellent opportunity to meet, network, and participate in exchanging knowledge for mutual education with other members. Underrepresented minorities** are highly encouraged to apply.

How do you apply?

Click the link below to complete the application. Please be prepared to submit a letter requesting consideration for the grant, proof of studentship or post-doc status, and letter of recommendation from your supervisor all in PDF form. If you have any questions, please contact the Symposium Manager, Kellie Greene Bailey.

Application for a travel grant or selection as an awardee does not release you from the obligation to register. If you are selected as an awardee, you are still required to register. Information on how to register will be sent with the outcome notification.

What are the requirements to apply?

All applicants must provide the following with their application:

• Recommendation from your advisor and/or supervisor 
• Proof of NGI* status
• The ability to present (oral or poster) during the symposium or to write a synopsis of the 2025 CE Pharm Symposium

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The deadline to submit applications is June 10, 2025.

For more information on CASSS Next Generation Investigator Awards, click here.

*CASSS defines NGIs as individuals that are either currently in full or nearly full-time study for a formal academic qualification (e.g. degree, PhD), or have less than 4 years from the commencement of their first postdoctoral or first professional industrial or governmental position. NGIs can be in academia, government, industry, or any other organization that participates in the field of biopharmaceutical development, and may be based anywhere in the world. Career breaks will be recognized.
** “Underrepresented minorities” are several groups based on national or ethnic, cultural, religious, and linguistic identity, who have been denied basic access to an array of services and fundamental rights to those services such as equal healthcare, pay, representation in research and human studies, disease population, community, education opportunities in various disciplines and fields of study, and other basic fundamental rights to those services such as equal healthcare, pay, representation in research and human studies, disease population, community, education opportunities in various disciplines and STEM fields of study. This list is not exhaustive. This group includes Latinos (including Puerto Ricans), African Americans, Asian Pacific Americans, Arab and other Middle Eastern Americans, Native Americans, Native Hawai'ians and other Pacific Islanders, Inuit, and Alaskan Natives, the disabled (mentally and physically), etc.