SfN 2024 Travel Grant

Introducing the LifeCanvas Society for Neuroscience Travel Grant:

This is your opportunity to win a travel grant to attend the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference in Chicago and join the global neuroscience community to showcase your research. 

If you have data featuring our SmartBatch+, SmartSPIM or MegaSPIM technologies, you have the opportunity to be chosen to receive a travel grant of up to USD $1,500, and to spotlight your research at the LifeCanvas SfN Social. 

Participation criteria: 

  • Have data from a neuroscience project utilizing SmartBatch+, SmartSPIM, or MegaSPIM.
  • Have had your abstract accepted by SfN for the 2024 conference.
  • Application deadline: Friday June 7th

Award inclusions:

  • Win a USD $1,500 Travel Grant to cover trip and registration costs for SfN 2024
  • Spotlight on You: Winners will be highlighted at the LifeCanvas Booth, LifeCanvas SfN Social and Website.

The winners will be selected by our panel of judges and announced at the end of June.

Stay tuned for updates via email and our social media channels.

Fill out the form below and submit your abstract for a chance to win!

Terms and conditions:

Eligibility Criteria: Applicants must be actively enrolled or employed at an institution or company in a capacity in which they perform life science research. Recipients must be age 18 or older. Members of the immediate families of LifeCanvas Technologies employees and directors, and/or persons living in the same household as such persons, are ineligible to participate in this grant program. To be eligible, applicants must submit a poster abstract to the Neuroscience 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and their poster abstract must be accepted. The travel grant award allows for each recipient to receive up to USD $1,500 in reimbursement to offset the cost of coach class airfare, hotel stay, and ground transportation to and from their home airport. Recipients must email a completed expense report with attached receipts to Ali Balaguer, Senior Marketing Specialist at ali@lifecanvastech.com no later than October 30th, 2024 to be considered for reimbursement.


Miscellaneous: By submitting an application, each applicant agrees that LifeCanvas Technologies may use his or her name, abstract title, and abstract for marketing purposes. All applicants agree that LifeCanvas Technologies may process the personal data he or she provides as part of the application, including sharing such data with LifeCanvas Technologies’ partners, collaborators and other third parties who are obligated to keep the data confidential.
Award recipients may be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility, release of liability, a publicity release, and other appropriate legal documentation reasonably requested by LifeCanvas Technologies. No substitution or transfer of the award is allowed, except as otherwise permitted by LifeCanvas Technologies. Award winners are responsible for any local tax liability (city, state, or federal) occurred by winning and accepting the award. If, for any reason, this grant program may not run as planned for any causes beyond the reasonable control of LifeCanvas Technologies, then LifeCanvas Technologies reserves the right in its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the grant program. LifeCanvas Technologies has not made any warranty, representation, or guarantee, express or implied, with respect to the grant award and related services, including, without limitation, their quality or fitness for a particular purpose.  By participating in this grant program, each applicant unconditionally accepts and agrees to comply with and abide by these terms and conditions.