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App. deadline: 7/11/08
Notification:7/18/2008
Tuition due date: 8/15/08
 

Application for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Training Course

 
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Course held at

The CHOC Research Institute, March 3-12, 2009

or

The Scripps Research Institute,
TBA, 2009

The tuition for the course has been set at $2,000. This covers all supplies and materials for the course. There are additional costs for meals, housing, and transportation between the hotel and the teaching facility and these will be described in the registrations materials sent to accepted applicants. It is expected that these costs will range between $2,250 and $3,000, depending on the course location and negotiated rates. In addition, students are responsible for travel costs between the hotel and their homes/home institutions. There will be some scholarships awarded.

Application deadline for CHOC course: January 9, 2009
Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 16, 2009
Tuition due date: February 13, 2009

Application deadline for Scripps course: TBA, 2009
Notification of acceptance/rejection: TBA, 2009
Tuition due date: TBA, 2009

 

Please fill this application out on line. If this is not possible, you may

Fax Application to:

714-289-4531

Mail Application to: Philip H. Schwartz, PhD
CHOC Research Institute
455 S. Main Street
Orange, CA, 92868

Additionally, you must send by email to pschwartz@choc.org

  1. An NIH-style curriculum vitae (download a sample filled in Word version) and
  2. An email of support, with contact info, from your lab's PI, if you are not the PI.


Required fields are marked with*

 

*Course Location Applying for 
*First Name 
*Last Name 
*Phone No. 
*Fax No. 
*Address Line 1 
Address Line 2 
*City  *State 
* Zipcode 
*E-mail address 
*Nationality 
Visa Status/Duration (if not US citizen) 
*Institution    
Department  

*Institution Type  Academic
Research Foundation/Nonprofit
Industry
Government
*Title  Principle Investigator
Post Doc
Graduate Student
Technician
Other
*Education  MDPhD
PhD
MD
DDS
DVM
MS
MA
BS
BA
JD
*Name of Laboratory PI 

*Indicate your current level of cell culture expertise
  Regularly Sometimes Never
I culture animal cells.
I culture animal ES cells.
I culture human cells.
I culture human ES cells.
I establish primary cultures from animal material.
I establish primary cultures from human material.
I use standard precautions with human material.
I make culture media using my own ingredients.
I use commercially available culture media.
I make other culture reagents.
I use commercially available culture reagents.
I use the following analytical techniques:
     
    Phase contrast or DIC Microscopy
    Confocal Microscopy
    Flow Cytometry
    Immunocytochemistry
    Cytogenetics
    Microarray
    PCR

*Does your lab have NIH-approved human embryonic stem cell lines? yes no
*Where did you get them?
*Does your lab have other human embryonic stem cell lines? yes no
*Where did you get them?
*Please list all NIH grants and their PIs.  Also, indicate whether or not any of these grants are specific to human embryonic stem cells.
*Describe your objectives for taking this course. Please describe specific skills you wish to acquire. Please describe how you intend to use human embryonic stem cells in your laboratory after taking this course, i.e. specific research applications.
How did you hear about the training course? (NIH web site, web search, word-of-mouth, etc)

Application deadline for CHOC course: Jan 9, 2009
Notification of acceptance/rejection: Jan 16, 2009
Tuition due date: Feb 13, 2009

 

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